Word: occured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Killian (see box). It also led to the investiture of William Holaday, already the Pentagon's missileman, as a special kind of official "clothed with all the authority that the Secretary [of Defense] himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or interservice block can occur...
...getting ready to change its tight-money policy in order to stop the dip. Said Martin: "If you think that any time a decline reaches a certain point, we can just step in and stop it, you have misunderstood the workings of our entire system. Declines have to occur from time to time when mistakes in judgment have been made-when there has been waste and extravagance and incompetence and inefficiency. The only way we have of eliminating it is by taking losses occasionally. This is a loss as well as a profit economy...
...because competition has set a limit, and we certainly are not going to go down. It is not going to help the country if we go down to a point where the industry does not make any money, and it will hurt the Government very seriously if that should occur. We will not change our prices now, so let us just let that one rest...
...police department is having trouble tracking down the thefts, Toohy said, because notification is often given weeks after the robberies occur...
...month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk, has to be half-carried to tribal pig feasts. In this stage occur the outbursts which have caused kuru to be dubbed the laughing death. Speech gradually becomes more and more slurred until it is unintelligible. Nearly every victim also becomes conspicuously cross-eyed...