Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dissipate with the virtual Vatican takeover in 1981. After John Paul appointed Father Paolo Dezza as acting superior general and Father Giuseppe Pittau as his deputy, "everyone expected a Jesuit revolt," remarks the Rev. John Long, rector of the Jesuits' Russian-studies institute in Rome. When this did not occur, says Long, "the Pope was surprised, and the Vatican Curia was shocked." On the other hand, the Jesuits did not much change their activism but instead adopted a more circumspect profile...
...waiting games. He followed Gorbachev to the podium and warned that the President "must stop making mistakes and clinging to the old system . . . the economic and political crisis in the country has come to a head, the people's patience is coming to an end, and an explosion could occur at any time...
...deformed babies were born in the early 1960s to mothers who had taken the drug thalidomide, doctors have been alert to the risks that certain chemicals can pose to developing fetuses. Precautions, however, have been based on one central assumption: that exposure to dangerous substances is most likely to occur inside the wombs of mothers- to-be. A series of studies has raised the possibility that the fault can sometimes lie with the father. Poisons in a man's body may silently damage his sperm and thus lead to birth defects...
...close vote might suggest that Congress is not solidly united and thus prove highly damaging to Bush's strategy of applying pressure on Iraq. A White House spokesman brushed aside the very idea of congressional action as "unnecessary" because it presupposes "a war that we hope does not occur...
...through the actions and programming of the Sexual Assault Task Force we were able to show the population of Trinity that in fact these things did occur, and in alarming numbers...