Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fire, an earthquake-prone region around the Pacific rim, present a potential hazard to UCLA: the southern San Andreas fault, the Newport-Inglewood fault, and the Santa Monica fault. There is a 50 percent chance that a major earthquake--registering a minimum of eight on the Richter scale--will occur in the next 20 years at the San Andreas fault, the report said...
...really pleased to note that The Crimson no longer misspells the word "Khan" which has in the past frequently appeared as "Kahn" Now, please remember, while "Khan" does occur as a last name among peoples of the West and South Asia, in the case of this generous Harvard alumnus and benefactor, it is the second word in a title! Ali S. Asani Assistant Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture
...hang in with her anthropology studies. But both cases symbolize a chilling reality: at universities across the nation, blacks in particular and minorities in general are shockingly underrepresented at all levels, from the top of the faculty down to the lowliest freshman. The most dramatic drop-offs occur at the upper levels. Minorities constitute more than 20% of the nation's college-age population, but according to Sheila Biddle, program officer of the Ford Foundation, they accounted for only 8% of the 31,190 Ph.D.s awarded in 1983. Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and American Indians together accounted...
...mark not only on the city's mixed housing market but also on the diversity of people able to live in Cambridge. Rent control has helped forestall gentrification in the face of an especially tight housing market and potentially lucrative profits for speculators and developers if decontrol were to occur...
...said several problems still awaiting resolution include: distinguishing real warheads from decoys; researching new manufacturing technology that would keep costs down; and determining how to build satellites that could withstand the "hostile conditions" which would occur during a nuclear...