Word: occur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued to answer alarms but refused to keep records, make safety inspections or clean up debris after fires. Detroit policemen, demanding more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months by Philadelphia street cleaners, San Antonio garbagemen and Des Moines firemen...
...mergers, stock splits, the making of arrangements preparatory to an exchange or tender offer, changes in dividend rates or earnings, calls for redemption, new contracts, products or discoveries, are the type of developments where the risk of untimely and inadvertent disclosure of corporate plans is most likely to occur." Such activities may be kept secret by top management, but secrecy is less and less possible because "at some point it usually becomes necessary to involve persons other than top management." At that point, according to the board, "fairness requires that the company make an immediate public announcement...
...think about buildings? You live and work in them, but do you ever really think about them? New ones are piling up all around you. Did it ever occur to you that they might be killing the city by overcrowding? Do you try to judge buildings, wondering why some are good and others bad? Does one structure delight you and another depress you as just one more faceless façade, adding up to more monotony, more soul-destroying boredom? Architecture has always been the mirror image of a civilization, expressing its needs, its priorities, its aspirations. How do you like...
...matter of race. Southern politicians are learning to say "Negro" when they mean "nigger," and Northern liberals are careful now to say "black" when they mean "Negro." (That's because blacks have begun saying "Negro" when they mean "sellout.") Opportunities to use these terms do not occur every day, but whites keep in practice just in case...
When Black-White conversation does occur, it is likely to consist of Black's saying blackly that "America as it now exists must be destroyed," and White's answering, "Yes, but what do you really mean?" Kill Whitey? Or (smiling whitely) merely destruction of the social order? And what then? Black points out with sour pleasure that his "revolution" has 22 million members and that there are few recruiting or dropout problems. White says yes, but so long as blackness and separatism are requirements, the membership can do no more than cause disruption, because it can never grow...