Word: happen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing that the nuclear power industry had been badly wounded by the events at Three Mile Island, antinuclear groups moved into action across the country. Near Minneapolis and Eau Claire, Wis., they demonstrated against nuclear power plants, crying, "It could happen here...
...cautiously balanced view of many U.S. experts on the Middle East as they analyze the likely effects of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty. Says a State Department senior aide: "We're moving into a roomful of new realities in the Middle East, but nobody can be sure what will happen to people's perceptions as we go through the door...
Europeans-as well as Americans-had good reason to worry about what would happen to the supply, and price, of oil. Meeting in Geneva, the OPEC nations raised the price of crude oil by 9%-and that was the good news. The bad news was that they agreed to allow members to add whatever surcharges "they deem justifiable." Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who had argued in vain against the surcharge, predicted that the move could cause a "free-for-all" in the world oil market...
Alan Ayckbourn is a master of frustration comedy. The funniest things happen to his people when they cannot do what they intended...
...fact, that is not likely to happen very often. Most people instinctively watch Ayckbourn. Something is going on behind that face of vanilla pudding, but they are not quite sure what. If they had seen any of his 22 plays, however, they would know: Ayckbourn is watching them, his eyes alert for what he calls those "quick social embarrassments" that comprise the human comedy...