Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson disregarded the discouraging CIA reports on Viet Nam; they were not what he wanted to hear. The White House rejected CIA warnings of a Middle East war in 1973. Why would the Arabs want to start a war they could not win? reasoned the policymakers. It did not occur to them that the Arabs could win something just by fighting better than they had the last time...
...harm to man so far seems negligible, the very fact that such nuclear space accidents occur is chilling. For all the talk of "fail-safe" systems, as man hurls more and more lethal nuclear power plants into space, the probability increases of further, and much more harmful, "space age difficulties...
...student government and the existing Harvard bureaucracy, at least during the early stages of the new government's development. More importantly, Calabrese maintains, the specific relationship between the new and the old student governments does not have to be written into the constitution. "The biggest change will not occur now," Calabrese says. "It will occur next fall, when the new student government is organized, and its members are elected. Then the new student government itself can re-examine student-Faculty relations and decide what course to take. First we must set the thing up. Then we will find...
...amount of wishful thinking can alter the effects of the pervasive disadvantages which minority students face at all levels of their education. While there is considerable room to improve the efficacy of identifying and recruiting talented minority students in the existing pool, substantial expansion of the minority pool will occur only when there is a fundamental change in the educational opportunities available to this country's minority populations...
Virologists have now rechristened flu viruses, using the initials H and N for the two protein spikes and numbering their major changes. Thus the last major shift, the Hong Kong flu of 1968, becomes H3N2. But within each such shift minor changes known as drift can occur, and the last two of the five H3N2 drifts are A/Victoria and A/Texas...