Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partnership between mean, porcine Charles Porson and charming, handsome Derek Crowley. The plot starts out with a littering of anonymous letters around town, accusing Crowley of an affair with Porson's pretty young wife. There are two clumsy attempts at murder and then two quite successful ones that occur on a PC tour of Venice. If the terrain is familiar to Symons, every detail is fresh, right down to the crisp use of Venice, blessedly free of tax write-off color. A Criminal Comedy is a , zestful work of a master still challenging his craft...
...stunning upset did occur in the open singles division--in which players compete individually for the National Amateur Championionsip--as Harvard's Kenton Jernigan, an overwhelming favorite to win the title, was knocked off in the final by Hugh Lavossier of Yale...
...potentially hazardous failures that could lead to a catastrophic loss of a shuttle, failure of a solid rocket booster was the most likely to occur, according to the Air Force report...
...there still are a few--like to view Gramm-Rudman as nothing more than a device for applying pressure. As they see it, when the pressure gets high enough a few months from now--meaning when enough special- interest groups rise in rebellion against the threatened cuts--there will occur, as if by magic, what former Budget Director David Stockman used to call "the big fix." This comes when everybody reluctantly agrees to both some budget cuts and some tax increases. One formula being mentioned is known as 20-20-20, meaning $20 billion in new taxes and $20 billion...
There had been widespread apprehension that the death sentences would spark riots among Sikh extremists, but that did not occur. There was also no violence last week after a Pakistani court gave death sentences to three Sikhs convicted of hijacking an Indian airliner...