Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker at gatherings of ecologists and government planners. "People ask me, 'How could such a world come about?' I use the example of the vast change in smoking behavior in this country, which is a paradigm of the way in which social change toward Ecotopian patterns is happening and is going to happen. When you give people a choice between living and dying, on the whole more choose living...
...humor." But what will really "be the key to the evolution of Ecotopia" will be a catastrophe at a nuclear plant. "One of these days a nuke is going to blow in the country, as surely as the sun goes up and comes down. It's practically bound to happen, and it will put a whole new complexion on environmental politics...
...most important domestic issue right now is what is going to happen in the Supreme Court," said Neas. "The balance in the Supreme Court is very precarious. Many constitutional and statutory rights that we have today could be gone tomorrow...
...Everyone on the delegation at different times felt that they could be killed," said Yourman. "You're in the middle of nowhere--all it takes is one soldier to get mad. You don't know what can happen...
...Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up -- up, up. And . . . down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock...