Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often do you think incidents occur in your community where police use violence against private citizens...
...Drank a good deal of whiskey, trying to relax," he begins, and that prescription is followed through the 1940s and '50s. Occasional grace notes occur, but hangovers and revulsion are usually the order of the day: "I feel sick, disgusted with myself, despairing and obscene. I have a drink to pull myself together at half past eleven and begin my serious drinking at half past four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy...
...kind of misadventure that critics had predicted would occur on a wide and bewildering scale once the oddly assorted multinational forces went into battle. Snafus in lines of command, in the coordination of differently trained and equipped soldiers, in attempts to simply speak with one another -- all had been pointed up as potentially fatal pitfalls facing such an ungainly coalition. Yet the so-called AirLand strategy, adopted in the 1980s by NATO as a counter to a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, proved to be more than a knockout military punch. Because NATO relies on a central command of joint...
...past weeks' incidents have sadly and deplorably overlooked our responsibilities to one another. It is most unfortunate that such a display of insensitivity can occur within our university. I hope that we can soon refocus our attention on the important questions and issues brought up by these incidents in a manner that is more conducive to learning and growth...
Similar things occur at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, among other schools. There, according to The Economist, informed students instruct their classmates on ways to avoid military service, including options like losing lots of weight, professing homosexuality or drug abuse and urinating on the induction examiner...