Word: occurance
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Naked is largely a record of the author's success and failure at the many stints of his life. He writes of his experience as an intern at an insane asylum, as a dishwasher, a fruitpicker, a thief and a jade-salesperson. Many of these adventures occur during his travels, where it is clear Sedaris has an ear not only for how Americans talk but, more importantly, for how they cuss...
...have to rush to make your system year 2000-compliant. Despite their various faults, most PCs and Macs are very capable of counting above 1999. However, with the expansion of the Internet, and thus links between personal and mainframe computers, there is an increased chance that data confusion will occur...
...similar incidents were to occur against vocal liberal groups, I'd be willing to guess that the University would come down much harder," Wheatley says. "There would be a much larger outcry if there were offensive material posted on the door of say, BGLTSA [Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance] members...
...raising dinner at his Georgetown house where, for $20,000, you could get face time with Speaker Newt Gingrich (back when that was considered an appealing opportunity). Gray himself gave $143,910 to political candidates and committees in 1995--more than any other Washington lobbyist. These transactions didn't occur on government real estate, but are they any purer for that? Republican Senator Don Nickles signed a 1990 letter promising G.O.P. donors of $10,000 or more an invitation to the Bush White House and a chance to meet with U.S. trade officials and foreign ambassadors. Imagine the fuss...
...error, Balaban--an amateur baroque musician who sometimes serenaded his chicks with his lute to stimulate their singing--traced the movements and sounds to two very different areas in the brain. "That's new. That's interesting," says Caltech neurobiologist Masakazu Konishi. "It means posture and sound that usually occur together in crowing are controlled by different neuromechanisms...