Word: occured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nature has mood swings. But people are probably no longer as temperamental about them as they once were, as barnyard animals are. Ridiculous as it seems, the seasons usually occur now at a certain distance. They have some interest, like landscapes glimpsed out a train window. But they are also a little raw and messy...
...such a war has been a distinctive feature of Soviet military thinking in the nuclear age." In other words, though the Soviets agree that deterrence and mutual vulnerability are crucial for world stability, they do not actually rule out the possibility of a nuclear conflict; if it does occur, they are determined...
...Board has spent quite a bit of time in the last few years discussing the phenomena of plagiarism and what it calls "misuse of sources." The Board has wanted to be certain that it clearly distinguishes between two different types of situations. There are cases where deception has occurred, that is, where a student has submitted work in a manner such that an instructor in a course might reasonably have assumed that it was the student's own when in fact it was not. In other situations a student has simply failed to follow the rules of citation properly...
...most remarkable things about the Board is that, in spite of all the changes that have occurred and continue to occur in its structure, and in spite of the changing perceptions of the Board and attitudes toward the appropriateness of exceptions to rules, the enforcement of discipline, etc., the actual work of the Board has remained very consistent over the decades. The Board has always been, from its outset, a group of Faculty members and senior College administrators which strives to understand the circumstances of individual students so as to make, where necessary, those decisions most calculated to help...
...officials and students in the crew programs here agree that while accidents do occur from time to time, the likelihood of a similar disaster at Harvard is small...