Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women are often the target of systematic human rights violations and we wanted Harvard students to be aware of the violations that occur throughout the world," said Zeeshan H. Zaidi' 97, president of the Harvard chapter of Amnesty International...
...tell if you're going to get along? Ultimately, you can't. People change. Fights occur. It's all one big crap shoot, and you won't know until you live with someone...
...certainly conceivable that the positive effect Sue speaks of could occur. But it could also be that Sue confuses cause and effect. The reason abortion training has been leaving the medical curriculum is because a significant portion of the public opposes the procedure itself. Forcing teaching hospitals to provide this training would therefore have little or no effect on the public's opinion on this matter...
According to a report compiled by the Alan Guttmacher lnstitute, a non-profit group which does research on reproductive issues, the number of abortion providers decreased by 8 percent between 1988 and 1992. And of the abortions that do occur, 93 percent of them take place in clinics or doctor's offices, not hospitals...
After reading your article on ``smart cars'' [Business, Feb. 6], I am furious! Engineers are trying to make cars idiot-proof no-brainers to drive. What is needed, instead, is to get the idiots off the road and onto public transportation, where they cannot injure anyone. Most ``accidents'' occur because people do not pay full attention to their driving. People drive while reading, shaving and using car phones. People change lanes without looking or signaling. Hazards can appear in seconds, and full attention is essential to avoiding tragedy. Many so-called accidents are really criminal negligence. People need to have...