Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kickoff will likely occur in the midst of a continuing national eco- Snomic downturn and in the wake of severalwidely-publicized financial scandals at thenation's elite universities...
...seems even more artificial when compared with Mad About You, the season's best new sitcom. Paul and Jamie (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) are Manhattan newlyweds with no cute eccentricities, no clashing political views, no comical disparities in social background. Their problems are the little ones that occur when even compatible people are tossed into the same house together for the first time. Just getting out of the apartment in the morning is a Feydeau farce: she rushes back to open the window (the dog needs air), he rushes back to close it (a burglar might...
...didn't it occur to you, worry you, that her feeling had something to do with her resentment of her mother...
Held added that the most valuable service performed by a retreat of this sort is allowing students simply to meet each other and know who to reach when tensions occur. "This moves away from crisis management and moves toward crisis prevention," he said. "Crisis prevention and friendship building are inextricably linked...
...brush aside the spindly corpse, the poet's question may occur to you. Why do mosquitoes make that irritating little noise? Its usefulness from the human point of view is obvious. But what is its survival value from the mosquito point of view? Why in the world would these otherwise canny creatures go to the trouble of evolving a behavior so ideally suited to helping their prey find and swat them...