Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Mondale is defeated in November, one thing should be made clear. His defeat will occur not because he chose a woman running mate, but in spite of his putting a woman on the ticket...
...structure in order ... to meet that minimum level of Government expenditures." Then a countercaveat: "I think we're a long way from that point with regard to bringing Government down to where it could be brought down." Yet Reagan declined to say where further spending cuts could occur or how they could possibly approach the $200 billion level of the budget shortfall, which he is committed to eliminate...
...million annual U.S. allotment. Groups that promote abortion would be cut off entirely. Ironically, the policy is unlikely to accomplish the one thing that its right-to-life supporters might expect. An estimated 50 million abortions are now performed each year around the globe; perhaps half of those occur in Third World countries that have antiabortion laws...
More than half of the country's industry is concentrated there, and seven out of ten banking transactions occur there. Yet every new plan to spur the transfer of business and government out of the capital is largely a recycling of some previous unfulfilled plan. "There have been about five decentralization programs in the past 20 years, and all of them failed because there was no political will to carry them out," says Social Democrat Sánchez...
...some 20% of heart attack victims, death comes without any previous warning. Fixx, however, appears to have had some warning signals. A few days before his death, he complained to a fellow runner of exhaustion. "Tremendous fatigue often occurs prior to a heart attack," says Sheehan. More important, Fixx told his family that he felt a tightness in his throat while running. This, says Winslow, was probably angina, a telltale sign of coronary trouble. Though commonly described as a gripping pain in the chest, angina can occur anywhere from the nose to the navel. Usually it occurs in the same...