Word: happen
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Indeed, Harvard as a team had nothing to be ashamed of in its performance. The icewomen dug in the corners, attempted to make plays happen in the offensive end, and played aggressive defense...
...encouraging to witness what can happen in an environment where free enterprise is allowed to fluorish," Reagan told the islanders. The praise, however, was premature. Despite some $74 million in U.S. aid over the past two years, the before-and-after picture of Grenada is pretty much the same. The problems that beset the island under Marxist rule persist: high unemployment, minimal foreign investment, primitive communications and electricity systems. Unemployment is 30%, and twice that among youth. Almost 2 1/2 years after the U.S. promised to stimulate foreign investment in the island through tax credits, only two such efforts have...
...their plan to stage a 24-hour strike. Marcos hinted last week that he might use force to quell any outbreak of civil disobedience. Stung by world opinion and holed up in a palace surrounded by barbed-wire barricades, Marcos may try to reassert his power. If that should happen, the only tempering influence left may be Cory Aquino. "She must steer a moderate course," said Businessman Jaime Ongpin late last week. "If she opts for violence, we will end up in anarchy...
...told the presidential commission, "I would think it was more than reasonable that if someone were still concerned this was a very bad judgment or bad action, they would call me. I left every opportunity for that to happen" in the time between the 9 a.m. objection and the 11:38 a.m. launch. No such call came...
Shcharansky says he was determined not to let this happen and spent long hours trying to keep his moral balance. He remembers creating the kind of unity among prisoners that he once strived for among Soviet dissidents. "The Soviet authorities hate any kind of solidarity among independent-minded people," he says. "In prison this becomes even clearer than it is in ordinary life. Prisoners are forbidden to write collective letters of protest. You are punished if you write to the authorities on behalf of another prisoner --say a sick man who is not getting any medical attention. The authorities...