Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after closing. The owner is a white man, hard-pressed by automated competition and a radical son who tries to talk revolutionary politics to the befuddlement of most of the black employees and to the great contempt of the one among them who is politically committed. A few incidents occur to liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor) and his entourage splashily tool up to get a bird dropping removed from his customized...
...announced a new austerity program recently, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti included in it a measure to skip two civil and five religious holidays (among them: St. Joseph's Day on March 19, Republic Day on June 2, St. Peter and St. Paul Day on June 29) when they occur next year. Five of the seven days will be taken between Christmas and New Year's as a sort of national vacation-a compromise needed to win the assent of Italy's powerful labor unions and Communist Party to the revised holiday lineup...
This week's immunization went smoothly and no serious reactions to the vaccine have occurred or are likely to occur, Postel said...
...theories, intentions and standards. Just as the publishing community is rife with anecdotes about books that were repeatedly rejected going on to become classics, so too the writing field spurns many of its future greats. The committee's academic credentials minimize the subjectivity involved in selection, but selection must occur, and it is a subjective act. How many of us have friends of equal or better academic stature who didn't get into Harvard? Is that "fair?" And finally, where did they end up that is so much worse? Princeton? Yale? Stanford? Although Option III is limited, there are almost...
Nothing is definite ... yet. There's still a game at Columbia next Saturday, a game which must be won, but barring one of those upsets that can only occur when Michigan plays Purdue, it looks quite certain that Brown is about to gain at least a share of the Ivy championship, the first in its history...