Word: happen
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California Chief Justice ROSE ELIZABETH BIRD at the University of California, Davis: "You should concentrate on what you are doing now, and if you do it well, things that you want will happen in the future. I think that no matter how much material success you may achieve, you pave the way to disappointment if you set up your five- and ten-year goals and say to yourself, 'By then I want to be there.' We are here, I believe, to achieve wisdom and live ethically. And if we can look upon the journey of life as a learning process...
Confronting Mulloy with the documents in a closed hearing, Rogers asked how this dismissal of a crucial difficulty could happen. Mulloy replied that the closeout had been a mistake, "a failure of the human being within the system." Snapped Rogers: "It was a little more than that. It's a failure of the whole system if one letter and one human being can close out a constraint that has been concerning you for many years." Rogers asked Russell why he had recommended the closure. "Because I was asked to," Russell answered. "Well," commented Rogers with biting sarcasm, "that explains...
...could this happen? Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who turned out to be one of the commission's most insightful members, probably explained it best. The joint hazard was often discussed before a flight, Feynman pointed out. "It flies and nothing happens," he theorized at a commission hearing. "Then it is suggested, therefore, that the risk is no longer so high for the next flight--we can lower our standards a bit because we got away with it last time. It's a kind of Russian roulette." In fact, with each pull of the launch trigger, the odds...
...York City last month, Bonner had a highly publicized reunion with Anatoli Shcharansky, the Soviet dissident who was released from prison earlier this year. Then, addressing members of Congress on May 21, Sakharov's 65th birthday, she warned, "In Gorky, anything can happen, and the world will never learn the truth about us." On each occasion, Semyonov insists, Bonner's public appearances were arranged for her by others. She was denied an audience with President Reagan, possibly because the Administration did not want to insult Gorbachev. Instead, National Security Adviser John Poindexter received her for a 30-min. closed-door...
...circumstances. You in the West are blind and insensitive to the possibility of the South African Communist Party ruling this country. You will shrug your shoulders and say, "Well, it is better than apartheid." Maybe. But you are not concerned about what the results would be and what would happen to the rest of Africa. In Mozambique and Angola, the facts are readily available of the repression, the suffering, the dying in these countries after nine years of friendship with Moscow...