Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police say their "stop and asks" and dispersions of groups of kids occur only in neighborhoods where there is known drug activity or when they are called to the scene by suspicious or annoyed neighbors...
...admits it "doesn't much matter" that Bush's ads shamelessly distort the Democrat's proposals. (The latest Republican commercial predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive counterpunch -- a series of ads that slam the President's fiscal record. "We're already dead meat on the economy," says a Republican operative. "He can't put us in the hole any deeper. He hasn...
...analysts expect that insurance failures will occur on the scale of the savings-and-loan crisis. Insurance firms tend to stand on a more solid financial footing than banks and thrifts. State regulators generally require insurance firms to keep on hand $1 of capital for every $3 of outstanding obligations, compared with a ratio of 1 to 12 for banks...
Funding for student groups and underappreciated projects like CPR courses will be doled out in undramatic fashion. Devoted members will quietly work with faculty committees to improve the life at Harvard in small ways. A "scandal" may occur, basically from one or two members doing something rash and knuckle-headed...
Another antiadhesion drug is being developed for the treatment of traumatic shock. Here too the goal is to prevent the body's own healing process from going awry. Traumatic shock can occur when accident victims lose large quantities of blood, causing cells in vital organs to starve for oxygen. The starving tissues trigger a distress signal that summons leukocytes and other members of the body's damage-control team, which begin to destroy distressed cells. Alas, if the signal stays on too long, cells are killed at a phenomenal rate and major organs begin to die even while hospital trauma...