Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual changes in the book, aside from the preface and concluding chapter, are details--clarifications. The changes and additions to the bibliography demonstrate the growth of interest in the women's movement. The number of new sources would not occur if the book were on a different topic...
...never suspected anything out of the ordinary was up. Neither, apparently, did the Asian press corps, or even the unfortunate Sheik Mujib, the assassinee, himself. To be fair about it, however, it is rather hard to tell what's out of the ordinary in a nation where political assassinations occur at the rate of one thousand a year. Dozens of natives learn daily, at the cost of their lives, that it is very, very dangerous to assume you know Bangladesh...
...there are now a few women among them?must be 21, graduates of a four-year institution and in excellent physical condition. Aspirants take the Treasury law enforcement entrance examinations, which test powers of observation along with basic knowledge. The highest scorers are tapped by the Service as vacancies occur and start at salaries ranging from $8,500 to $10,520 a year, depending on their prior experience. Recruits take a basic two-month course in criminology, surveillance and firearms use at a former military camp in Georgia. Next come another two months of schooling in Washington and suburban Beltsville...
What will occur next remains unclear. One administration official said last night he expects the seven task forces and their coordinating committee will resist taking on the entire housing problem...
...these melancholy thoughts occur during Condor because there is little else to think about. Everything in the movie is familiar. Redford appears as Turner, a blithe, intelligent functionary in an unimportant CIA office in New York. He finds all his co-workers slaughtered one day. Figuring that he is next on the list for removal, he takes it on the lam. Turner calls into headquarters for help, but it seems that headquarters wants to kill him too. Everyone wants to kill him, except the melancholy, liquid-eyed Kathy (Faye Dunaway). Redford rewards her by commandeering her car and apartment, tying...