Word: happening
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...wrote to 700 major corporations urging them to give permanent jobs, and time off for training, to Olympic-bound athletes. Miller also enlisted the help of the U.S. Olympic Committee and the Amateur Athletic Union to certify the athletes as world-class competitors. "The worst thing that can happen is that the kid you hire doesn't make the Olympics," says Miller. "Meanwhile, you've got yourself a highly motivated young person who generally has a college degree, and often a master...
...proceeding with the cloning, Rorvik and his scientist cronies have made the decisions and they certainly have not been all-knowing nor all-wise. The very types of abuses and unethical procedure which Rorvik cites as dangers of cloning are prevalent in Darwin's work and are likely to happen again as long as methods are not open to scrutiny by the public and by colleagues. For example, Rorvik's claim in the book that a millionaire without an heir can be considered a suitable subject for cloning is, at the very least, questionable...
...committee members asked the administrators why copies of the core report were not distributed to many libraries. Bok and Fox answered that accidents happen, Boylan said, adding that neither Bok nor Fox appeared "stricken with grief...
...underspending of NDSL funds "should never happen," Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe, said yesterday...
DIED. George Papashvily, about 80, undauntable Russian emigrant who turned his scuffling initiation to America into a humorous bestseller, Anything Can Happen; in Cambria, Calif. His father in Soviet Georgia taught him swordmaking, but Papashvily washed dishes and raised chickens after reaching Ellis Island in 1922. His U.S.-born wife Helen put his misadventures to paper in 1944, and four more books followed. Papashvily also found success as a sculptor of animals...