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Word: happen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Wolfgang Herbig, a hospital director in the nearby town of Kaiserslautern. "There are always many ambulances at motor races or soccer games." Base officials defended their planning. "You don't plan for 300 and more injuries," protested one U.S. Government official. "If you had any idea that might happen, you wouldn't let the show take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany Hellfire from The Heavens | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Williams said that mistakes were bound to happen when "complex" work--like landscaping the football field-sized commons--is done at an accelerated pace. He added that the University was trying to correct the problem but did not want to act too hastily...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Turf Tiff Leads to Long Grass | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...jobs that do not exist or for which they are not suited, or urge them to use services that are either inadequate or actively feared. Moreover, walking away from a beggar can be a risky proposition; the back turner must worry not only about what will happen to the panhandler but also about whether his own conscience will become calloused. Every time someone walks away from an importuning hand, he risks becoming a little harder, a little tougher, a little less like the person he should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Begging: To Give or Not to Give | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...because it is not biodegradable, will clog landfills for centuries. Early efforts to produce plastics that decay were less than successful: some disintegrated under sunlight, unavailable at the bottom of landfills. Others came apart after contact with water, causing supermarket executives to shudder at the thought of what would happen to the groceries in a plastic shopping bag containing a leaky milk bottle. But now there is a method of adding cornstarch to some plastics. Bacteria eat the starch, causing the plastic to fall apart into pieces that can be ingested by microorganisms. Result: the plastic disintegrates in four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Garbage, Garbage, Everywhere | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Bush. What's the difference? If the question is asked publicly, impugning the man's integrity, there's no difference at all. There was all this running around, yelling "Draft dodger!" and throwing names against the person. I don't happen to think that's fair. And that's a subjective opinion from George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans3 16 2008 Bush: I Have to Wait and See | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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