Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baiba K. Ozols, a Law Library cataloguer, said,"I have seen other disasters but never to thiscrucial an area." Warrington said that"unfortunately these things happen to thelibraries occasionally, but not often to the rarebooks collection...
...particular, she said people who test positive for HIV, the AIDS antibody, need counseling because they are "waiting and watching and worrying about what will happen to their bodies in five to nine years," she said...
Sometimes it seems that until a problem has a name, nothing is done to solve it. At least that's seemed to happen to women who needed help learning to support themselves after having been dependent on their spouses...
...conservative American Enterprise Institute. "Clearly, for all his horrible problems, Dukakis remains within striking distance." Richard Wirthlin, pollster for the White House and the Republican National Committee, states flatly, "Dukakis can still win." As evidence that 10-point swings in the last weeks of a campaign can happen, he points to the 1980 election: as late as Oct. 20, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were even, but Reagan won by 9.7 points. Wirthlin, perhaps to pump up the G.O.P. troops, puts Dukakis' chances of bringing off a similar turnabout as 1 in 3; more cold-eyed analysts think those odds...
...just doesn't happen this way. Smash Brit band, bedecked with hit singles and platinum albums from abroad, storms U.S. shores in 1983. Plays some concerts, manages to squeeze one hit onto the low midrange of the singles charts, then goes back home. Modest hit single, which had reached the No. 1 spot in twelve other countries, expires from widespread Stateside indifference...