Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight delays of 15 minutes or more at the 22 busiest U.S. airports, as compiled by the FAA, rose by 13% in the first three months of 1987 compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston, N.Y., an IBM technician who flies often: "Delays occur so frequently that I feel lucky whenever one lasts less than an hour." A Government study of service by Eastern and Delta at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport showed that many of their regularly scheduled flights were delayed at least 70% of the time; a few had 100% records of lateness...
...limit to what we can do." Even at the most sophisticated hospitals, babies born before the 24th week of gestation or weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lb.) have virtually no chance of survival. Meanwhile, fewer than 1% of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year occur after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Unless there are major technological breakthroughs, concludes Janet Benshoof, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, "there is no 'collision course...
...books containing maps to religious day schools but may not lend maps alone or films on geography. It may bus students from their homes to such schools but not from the schools to museums. It may diagnose speech or hearing problems on the schools' premises, but subsequent therapy must occur elsewhere if public money is involved...
When the evening ended, Sukhodrev sidled up to Helms, smiled and said warmly, "I never expected to meet a chief of the CIA." It was one of those poignant moments that sometimes occur in the tortured destinies of the superpowers. Archadversaries come together and find their instincts are to like each other, then politics and duty send them off into the dark night to battle again. Author John le Carre could not have written it better: Spymaster George Smiley goes to Moscow and feels the great sadness of mankind's grim contention...
...critics are quick to point out the extraodinary slowness with which such changes occur. Some say his major failing is that his desire for consensus is nearly obcessive--rendering him unable to give the University the direction or the initiative it needs...