Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first secretary in the Afghan embassy in New Delhi, would confirm only that a "gas tanker" had exploded in the tunnel. Without offering additional information on the accident, he argued against reports of enormous casualties. "We would have had to call for help internationally if such a disaster had occurred," said Wafamal. But Western diplomatic and military sources, citing reports from Kabul, and Afghan refugee leaders in New Delhi claim that a major tragedy did occur. One eyewitness, a refugee who gave his name only as Abdul, was riding on a bus that was about 65 ft. from the tunnel...
...Arthur Clarke notes, most technological change seems to occur when a pressing social need is met by a particularly useful innovation, like the steam engine or telephone. As it happened, only a few visionaries like Clarke anticipated the need for satellites. Yet somehow, in less than a generation, they have firmly established themselves in the fabric of contemporary life, shrinking time and space, almost as if the world craved to be brought closer together. Perhaps the space age's real giant steps were not the ones on the moon but the ones that are being taken overhead, like Columbia...
Quad House masters grew enraged students yelled. President Horner wanted and the QRAC staved shut It is still closed and will remain so until recently begun repairs are completed While that preliminary for opening may not occur for another few weeks, students and University officials should be looking at the many QRAC problems that have nothing to do with digging new drains or fixing leaks but rather threaten more than just the future of a building...
...widespread belief that the comprehensive plan has been effective has nevertheless not deterred the ongoing review of the changes, which was intended to occur after five years. Part of the reason for the review by a five-master committee headed by South House Associate Master Anne M. Wacker is a "technical obligation" to review the plan as intended after five years, according to Fox. But Fox, who has charged the committee with no particular directive, says the broad objective of the Comprehensive Plan was to create "more or less the same social and educational environment in the Houses. "Recognizing...
...Researchers have known for two decades that certain forms of cancer are associated with certain visible changes in the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in human cells. Recent studies suggest, for example, that in some lung cancers a piece is often missing from chromosome No. 3. Better-documented changes occur in certain leukemias and lymphomas. In one form of chronic leukemia, a piece of chromosome 22 changes place with a piece of chromosome 9. In most patients with a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma, a piece of chromosome 8 has changed places with a piece...