Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every spring, exchanges like this occur among the deans of 23 top private colleges. The idea is to avoid bidding wars for students accepted by more than one college, and to ensure that institutions are similarly interpreting financial information submitted by parents. But the Justice Department has decided to look into this practice, as well as into the fact that within groupings -- the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters, for example -- yearly tuitions tend to be similar. Presumably Justice wants to determine whether there is any violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits restraint of trade...
...course, everyone speculates about how these incidents occur at the time they are discovered. Years of analysis and research later, we develop some understanding of their causation, as we have, for example, with the Vietnam War. But just as we seem to get a grasp of how our government messes up, hungry journalists uncover more and more scandals...
Allowing the Contras to exist until the election would improve the chances of success for the democratic reforms in Nicaragua. But, if the Contras are dismantled ahead of time, there is no way for observers to guarantee that reforms will occur. Under the accords, the plan would be implemented by a group made up of representatives from the United Nations and the Organization of American States...
...recession does occur, it may well be triggered by a sharp erosion in consumer confidence. Americans are saddled with hefty debt loads and could easily become jittery if the economy weakens. Says Doris Drury, president of the Center for Business and Economic Forecasting in Denver: "I'm leery of debt. If we could have a recession on the order of 1981 or '82, that could be a real problem." Consumer debt has increased from $1.7 trillion to $3.3 trillion since the expansion began in late 1982. If Americans cut back abruptly on their spending, the effects would ripple through...
...like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem: "How can I forget my schoolmates who were shot dead, injured and arrested by the Israeli army...