Word: occur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...search for why, and we become hopelessly bogged down in worldly metaphors, which are our second problem. We believe in Boyle's Law and various aspects of Newtonian Physics, and so we think that "outbreaks," "explosions," "eruptions," etc. occur when there is a lot of pressure built up. So when the newspapers and everyone else say that the campus "exploded," our mind moves to the physical metaphor. Next, it moves to the causes of explosion--what enormous pressures have built up and have no place to go and go explode? And so we look for the reasons: the channels...
From the computer's carefully recorded data, Edwards has learned that people on the whole make remarkably rational decisions. Nevertheless, more than a third of the participants become befogged by superstitions, biases and logical incoherences. Most people, for example, regard an event as more likely to occur if they stand to lose by its occurrence rather than gain by it. Also, they tend to inflate the value of the money they stand to win-that is, a $10 bet means more to them emotionally than five $2 bets...
...PRINCIPLE that must be strictly observed if the current student strike is not to transform itself into a disastrous and tragic war between students and Faculty is that there occur no disruptions of classes...
...Monday, Mike Grafton '71 presented the proposal of the New College at the Stadium. Announcement was made of the initial set of 15 gatherings, to occur on Tuesday. On Tuesday night, an additional 26 meetings for Wednesday were announced...
...relocation occur until a representative group of community residents, students, and faculty report on all matters pertaining to the University's relation to the Hospital and University Road apartments...