Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occur to me that he was opposed to[affirmative action policies] then," Eisner said.In a May interview, Dubois Professor of Historyand Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins notedthat only recently has Loury charted such aconservative course...
...long ago, important American graphic design was thought to occur exclusively in New York City. But San Francisco, for one, has been changing that. Starting about 20 years ago, a new generation of designers came of age in the Bay Area, formally trained but unconventional by temperament. At the same time, decoration became fashionable again, modernist doctrine loosened, and a sort of regional self-infatuation overtook the arts. Baby-boomer entrepreneurs, with their hip clothing companies, upscale shops and software firms, became prime graphic-design clients. By the early 1980s the most talented of the San Francisco designers were creating...
Bakker, Falwell said, described the adulterous 1980 tryst with Hahn as a 20- minute encounter in which Hahn was the aggressor and intercourse did not occur. According to Falwell, Bakker also said that the $265,000 in hush money came from his personal funds, not from PTL. On that basis, Falwell told Bakker that if he ironed out problems with his church body, the Assemblies of God, "I see no reason why you couldn't get back in the ministry." Falwell declared his willingness to "step aside...
...place, controllers hope to be able to predict at least two hours in advance when an airspace sector is about to become saturated, and thus prevent delays. Says Jack Ryan, director of the FAA's Air Traffic Operations Service: "We will be ready to head off problems before they occur...
...most overt example of statusgrubbing did not occur in baseball but in basketball. Consider the year that both Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were getting their contracts renewed. A few days after Red Auerbach signed Russell to the tune of $100,000, Chamberlain demanded $100,001. The rivalry that the two big men had on the court spilled off the court...