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Word: occurance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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McDonald's set also hints at the peril which threatens this unstable society. The light gray, starkly furnished rooms of Elsinore are tipped precariously over a menacing ocean. Major set changes occur in semidarkness in order to display striking images of moving castle walls...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: The Madness of Hamlet's World | 12/5/1991 | See Source »

...only Western power strong enough to retaliate, banned all iron and steel shipments to Japan. "It seems inevitable," said Asahi Shimbun, then Japan's largest daily, "that a collision should occur between Japan, determined to establish a sphere of interest in East Asia . . . and the United States, which is determined to meddle in affairs on the other side of a vast ocean." Added Yomiuri, another giant newspaper: "Asia is the territory of the Asiatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...abuses of the market that occur in Santiago and Moscow burt the wealth of the economy as a whole. Faced with uncertainty and the danger of having their capital stock seized at any time and their earnings thus wiped out, those in the informal sector often are unable to build up the capital necessary to actually start a real, formal small business...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: A Black Mark (et) | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

...majority of turnovers, though, occur in the paint. When the Crimson gets the ball inside, the opposing team routinely collapses three players to defend...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Turnovers Plague Crimson | 11/26/1991 | See Source »

...AIDS virus is not found in sweat. So health-club members need not worry about who last rode the exercise bike. But in contact sports where bloody injuries can occur -- such as boxing, football and basketball -- it's possible for the virus to pass from one athlete to another. The risk appears to be extremely small: the Olympics' chief medical officer said last week that Magic Johnson would be welcome to play in the 1992 Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . But You Were Afraid to Ask | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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