At four times the American norm, he said, there are more likely to be effects.

Archie's initial rough edges become smoother across the decades, much as American norms evolved over the years.

Takeout and microwave foods are becoming the American norm for dinner.

All students in the program were functioning at or below the American norm on standardized tests last fall.

The study found that they could acquaint new immigrants with American cultural norms and provide education, health care, and recreation.

In the magazine Dissent, he argued that "constitutional dictators have become the American norm."

The community maintains that it has the right to set its own health standards even if they differ from American norms.

And, to Isherwood's protagonist, the American norm was something to celebrate.

Still, it can take several generations for poor immigrant families to catch up to American norms.

I have nothing against skinny, conventionally attractive young women, but they are not reflective of the American norm.