This norm is apparently stronger than the super-norm.
The present Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be seen as a "super-norm of ending global poverty" [ 1].
Some would argue that this super-norm was not needed, as there was one already, in article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized" [ 2].
As Barry Barnes and David Bloor put it, "there are no context-free or super-cultural norms of rationality" (1982: 27).
While the group does spend some money promoting or attacking candidates, as is the norm for super PACs, most of its money goes toward raising still more money and, ultimately, winds up padding the revenues of Mackenzie's companies.
Not only is it a moral imperative to preserve our environment, but a fiscal one, given that the economic consequences will grow increasingly severe as super-storms become the norm.
THE mission led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to make large-scale philanthropy the norm among the super rich has just won a dozen new converts.
Super PACs are now the norm in competitive federal races, with many formed to back a single candidate, run by that candidate's longtime aides or associates and financed by their family and friends.
In a new category--Sports, Sandy Grossman received a nomination for Super Bowl XVIII, while Bob Lanning, Larry Kamm, Norm Samet and Doug Wilson were cited for their directing work on last year's Olympics.
Diversity-even super-diversity-is now the norm.
But since then "Bill Gates has made philanthropy the norm" among the super-rich of the world, says Vartan Gregorian, who runs the charitable foundation set up by Carnegie.
