Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Once thought rare, a mutation in a BREAST CANCER gene turns out to occur in 1% of Ashkenazi Jewish women. These findings, combined with data showing that 1% of that population carry a flaw in a different breast cancer gene, means that 1 in 50 Ashkenazi Jewish women may have inherited a risk for the disease...
Police reports said the fumes resulted from "exhaust released on the roof of Mallinckrodt...[which] can occur when building humidity is very high...
Members of UNITE said the Committee on College Life, which is composed of students, administrators and faculty members, will probably recognize the group at its next meeting, which should occur within two weeks...
...section at Harvard is supposed to have more than 20 people in it, according to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. He acknowledges that "undergraduate migration" from one section to another because of better times or better teaching fellows does occur. However, the average should be 20 students per section for social science and humanities lecture courses, said Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, with smaller maximums for lab science, language and quantitative methods courses. In other words, if a History Department lecture course has 40 people, it will be allotted money for two sections...
Blake, as Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...