Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes The Progress of Love seems an ironic title. Munro describes the kinds of erosion that can occur when two people have rubbed against each other too long: "They were intimate. They had found out so much about each other that everything had got cancelled out by something else. That was why the sex between them could seem so shamefaced, merely and drearily lustful, like sex between siblings." A wife reaches for kind thoughts about her husband and almost succeeds: "I would think how humble he was, really, taking on such a ready-made role of husband, father, breadwinner...
While the surging glacier may bring disaster to Yakutat, it provides a rare opportunity for scientists to study a major geophysical event. Mayo sympathizes with the villagers yet can scarcely contain his excitement. "This is probably the largest natural alteration in oceans, glaciers, lakes and rivers to occur in our lifetimes," he says, and it offers "unprecedented opportunities" for research. The villagers do not share his enthusiasm. Says Yakutat Grocer and Planning Official Caroline Powell: "We are people, not some scientist's experiment or opportunity. Everyone seems content to watch this happen, and if they feel sympathy...
...concert of spirituals, an art exhibition, the re- enactment of a slave wedding, a blues performance, an exhibition of African dances, a display of Somerset artifacts -- are sure to be secondary. The day's highlights can only be the discoveries, surprises, delights, touchings and twinges that are bound to occur among people newly aware that they spring from a common past, a time carried forward in the sometimes accidentally transformed names of long-dead slave owners: Baum, Bennett, Littlejohn, Palin, Phelps, Reavis, Reevis, Blunt, Blount, Honeyblue, Horniblue and Dickson, among others...
...brokers, who execute stock and bond trades for their clients, and the so-called jobbers, who handle the brokers' orders as well as manage their own hefty accounts. This upheaval, roughly akin to Wall Street's May 1, 1975 plunge into a newly competitive environment, is scheduled to occur...
...agenda will be President Reagan's letter of July 25 to Mikhail Gorbachev. The secret missive contains a proposal for a transition to a world in which both superpowers could have large-scale strategic defenses. Under the President's timetable, the deployment of such Star Wars systems would not occur for at least 7 1/2 years. That feature was promptly leaked and widely seen as a victory for Secretary of State George Shultz and other arms-control advocates: it opened the way to "delay" deployment of SDI as part of a grand compromise that would include deep cuts in offensive...