Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these insights are not very original, and they are often expressed in cliches. Lines like "You have to be able to love someone enough to let them go" occur too frequently to be overlooked. This stale dialogue undermines the seriousness of the play's message...
...civil war, resulting in the breakup of the union, may occur if the central authorities deny the right of national self-determination and thus provoke secessionist explosions across the country. Or Russian nationalists could deliberately stimulate secessionism. But history could help us avert such a disaster. We experienced civil war at the beginning of this century. Perhaps the vividness of that memory will deter us from repeating the same mistake at the end of this century...
...Many of those people already have heart diseases of some kind, but many do not," said Kirby. While only 20 percent of the deaths occur among people under the age 65 and five percent to people under 45, young people are affected by the type of stress that proves fatal...
Suppose--hypothetically, of course--that you are trying to photocopy a periodical in Lamont, but that the only cash you have is a $5 dollar bill. If I were ever in such a situation, it might occur to me to try to get change from the folks over in Gov Docs, right down the stairs. Just to see what would happen, I stopped by Gov Docs the other day to see if they could break a five...
...sharply higher crime rates of the past three decades. A spate of scholarly studies has demonstrated that the offenses to quality of ) life that police now routinely overlook -- such things as loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most. In turn, their fear acts like an acid to disintegrate neighborhood ties. It leads citizens to shun the streets and abdicate responsibility for conditions outside their doors. That invites a dismal cycle of deteriorating conditions, more fear...