Word: happen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that treaty had the perfectly foreseeable consequence of throwing a lighted match into a powder keg. That treaty came about when the Vietnamese army was substantially concentrated on the Cambodian frontier, so the treaty gave the Vietnamese reassurance against a Chinese reaction to their aggression in Cambodia. Now I happen to believe that the Cambodian government [of Pol Pot] was a group of genocidal murderers. But that was not why the Vietnamese went into Cambodia; they went in because the Cambodian Communists wanted to be independent of Viet...
FRANCES FITZGERALD, writer (Fire in the Lake): Barry Commoner, Ralph Nader and Cesar Chavez are possibilities. Nader and Chavez are leaders on a grand scale. Their thinking is original and they have the ability to make things happen. It is characteristic of American society today that the antiwar movement, women's movement, antinukes have a collective leadership...
WILLIAM WINPISINGER, Machinists Union president: I think the country is crazy for a leader. That's the problem with the little fink we've got for a President now. It is still possible to call [AFL-CIO boss] George Meany a leader, but I happen to think he epitomizes negative leadership, characterized by inaction, immobility and stultified thinking. To me, Ted Kennedy has the skills to be a leader. He's charming; his staff has brains. Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich took on the utility company and the interlocking directorates. He told them baloney...
...have to remember anything, to begin with. If you play Vegas you've got about an hour by yourself. You have to remember every cue, every song, every lyric. If it's no good, you can't do it again. That can't happen to a movie actor. The director says, 'Come in,' and you walk in. If you stay out in the hall, you're a bad actor. If you walk in, you're a good actor. The director says, 'Sit down,' and you sit down...
...virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease. The scientists found that it also causes atherosclerotic lesions in heart arteries. But, intriguingly, virustree chickens do not develop heart disease even when fed a high cholesterol diet. Fabricant speculates that something similar may happen in humans as well...