Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hawkish eyes of their supervisors in order to watch Casablanca on their telescreens. Although these people are serving under a brutal system, they are nonetheless living creatures, unlike the automatons of Orwell's novel. There is even a resistance movement, evidencing itself in a variety of sudden explosions, which occur so often that they are hardly noticed...
Most fatal accidents occur within 25 miles of the home, and a passenger is 25 more times likely to be killed if he is thrown from a car, according to the Governor's Safety Bureau...
Spence said in an interview that his investigation uncovered no evidence of other contracts or grants with problems similar to the two documented in the report. He said he has taken steps to ensure that such policy violations and faculty oversight do not occur again...
...noon sun on Himalayan snow, comes partly from Persia (where shades of muted pistachio and oleander pink originated), partly from the British raj (all those brown and khaki earth tones) and partly too from what Curator Singh calls "the fugitive color palette"--the homespun miracle that would occur when a villager, out of necessity, dyed and redyed the same piece of cloth. Serendipity and splendor then: fashion as tradition. Fashion, indeed, as the warp of the social fabric...
...thinking about going down there and winning, and we're also thinking about continuing improving," Roby said. "If both occur at the same time, that's great...