Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Palestinian-Israeli violence does occur, however, it is for the most part limited to certain areas--the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem--and to those most intimately connected with the conflict--Israeli soldiers and settlers and the Palestinian youths who engage in most of the violence of the intifada. If you're not in one of these high-risk groups, life is relatively normal...
...into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...
Afternoon has slipped into evening. Emily's mother yawns. When closing arguments end, Walker, a kindly 20-year veteran of the bench who writes haiku and dabbles in abstract painting, rules that sexual abuse did, in fact, occur. After listening to two hours of testimony, Walker is convinced that Emily has been sexually abused by her father and wants to protect her from having it happen again. He orders Emily to remain in foster care and asks social services to evaluate the suitability of placing her in a relative's home...
Will upheavals occur in other republics...
When the recession arrived, it triggered the kind of layoffs that occur in any slump. But it has also accelerated a wave of firings that can only be attributed to longer-term structural changes, including a drastic shakeout in industries that were overbuilt in the 1970s and '80s. Among the worst hit is retailing, which is undergoing a painful adjustment to the frugal '90s. Just last week Zale, the largest U.S. jewelry-store operator, said it would close 400 of its 2,000 stores and lay off 2,500 workers. "We are looking at the historic restructuring of the American...