Word: frequently
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Though California is plagued by frequent temblors, it has suffered only two major earthquakes in recorded history: the fabled and destructive San Francisco quake of 1906 and an even bigger shock in 1857, which rocked the then sparsely populated southern and central parts of the state. Now that California is the nation's most populous state, it could suffer incalculable damage and thousands of deaths in a major quake. Such a quake will almost certainly happen and, says a young California scientist, probably within the next half-century...
After the mullahs, the most visible opposition to the Shah has come from the universities, where there is frequent agitation. Some students are Marxists who preach outright revolution. Many are Muslim activists, following the mullahs in their demands for an Islamic state. Vast numbers of others are caught up in the revolution of rising expectations; growing up in an atmosphere of increasing affluence, they are frustrated by the slow pace of economic and political change...
...bemoans their frequent emptiness, as in Opportunity...
...Pope St. Pius X, whom Luciani has often cited in his sermons. (Pius X is often remembered as the Pope who condemned Modernism, but that act was largely the work of his eminence grise Cardinal Merry del Val; Luciani, though, has revered Pius as the man who encouraged frequent reception of Communion and attendance at Mass.) The Venetian connection...
...business with South Africa, The Crimson faced a familiar ethical dilemma. As the chants grew louder, as University officials appeared ever more supercilious by their silence, as tempers neared a flashpoint, executives of the paper fought against pressures from both sides. Leaders of the demonstration recalling the paper's frequent editorial endorsement of their position, demanded more: cover us more favorably, they said, put us in an even better light, work more closely with us so we can see what you are doing, or prove yourselves hypocrites. At the same time, members of the administration railed against coverage...