Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women react to unwanted pregnancy is the most crucial-and least acknowledged-issue in the current debate over U. S. abortion laws. Each year, an estimated 25 million legal abortions occur throughout the world (v. roughly 120 million live births). The fact is that women have always practiced abortion, defying all laws or taboos against it, including the death penalty, which still exists in Pakistan. The inevitable Egyptian papyrus mentions it; Aristotle urged it in general terms, and so did Plato for every woman after 40; Roman husbands were entitled to order it. Anthropologist George Devereux has catalogued dozens...
...organization plans to ask individual students to sign a "letter of commitment" accepting responsibility for any demonstration that should occur. The students hope the administration will take no disciplinary action, Katz said, "if they see a great many are seriously devoted to an end to parietals...
...other hand, the White House usually lets the press know that these meetings occur, that the confrontations were thoroughly amicable. This one-sided leak, a time-honored political maneuver, is meant to convince Americans with intellectual pretensions that any President who spends so much time soft-soaping their brethren can't be that misguided after...
...people can in fact adjust to the sonic boom. The study which NASA quotes most often, by Bolt, Beranek and Newman, had subjects pushing buttons to activate an artificial boom-creating device. Although the artificial boom was as loud as a real one, the volunteers knew the boom would occur within five seconds after they pushed the button. Even among the fully-prepared subjects, almost half showed a marked increase in heart-beat as a result of the boom. NASA has never admitted to Shurcliff that the experiment's lack of surprise and the heartbeat findings might invalidate the conclusion...
...often in hope that the purchase will increase in value as the artist becomes better known. Amateurs can also dabble in oil-well exploration, beef cattle, race horses, Broadway plays, foreign exchange, gold and silver and precious gems on the chance that Oliver Wendell Holmes's probable will occur...