Everyone was exhausted from the long hours that had been the norm during the preceding months, and spirits were low.
Though opponents have cried foul, less discreet presidential campaigning was the norm during the PRI's seven decades in power.
In 2000, just half of the population had access to piped water [pdf] and water shortages were the norm during the dry season.
Blinken said such action is the norm during the peak of the season provided you have a boat and a guide to follow the schools.
Manager Len Walker must have been delighted, even if he did trot out the usual "it's only half-time" message that is the norm during any two-legged affair.
And as was the norm during that psychedelic era, "everyone, on and off the stage, was on drugs," said David Weissman, a San Francisco filmmaker who directed, with Bill Weber, a 2002 documentary on the troupe.
Last season, even after Russia's banking meltdown swallowed up $2.8m of general company funds which had been earmarked to support new productions, the theatre still managed to pump out five new premieres, (one was the norm during the Soviet period) including a new Lohengrin and a startling reinterpretation of Prokofiev's soviet opera Semyon Kotko.
The first group off the 10th tee, the threesome made the turn in 2 hours 20 minutes, which was speed golf compared with the six-hour rounds that were the norm during Ko's major championship debut in June at the United States Women's Open.
Such fascinating pedigrees are the norm during the collector car auctions at Paris's Le Grand Palais, the Beaux-Arts landmark just steps removed from the Champs Elysées.
In fact, this remarkable spirit of compassion and reaching out is the norm during crises.
