Word: occured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though Israeli officials neither confirm nor deny the charges, they point out that the incidents supposedly took place in the '50s, and claim that they would never occur today. They contend, moreover, that much of the report is "disinformation" engineered by the Soviet Union...
Although some professors were initial worried about the fragmentation that could occur as a result of the split precautionary measures were employed to prevent "losing things between the cracks," John E. Dowling, associate dean of the Faculty of the Life Sciences, said last week...
...world in which democracy has a good chance to thrive, we ought to work as efficiently as possible towards a world in which all its citizens have the time to be complete human beings, and not be satisfied with and hoe programs which respond to crises at they occur. For among the alternatives to movements emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his emphasizing the freedom of man to choose his form of global community--movements such as the NIEO--history shows us the dictatorships of Hitler and Stalin. A Hitler or Stalin brandishing atomic bombs is almost too much...
...sounds like one of those Brechtian place names out of Mahaggony, where mysterious and sinful things occur. And its equatorial locale is primitive and threatening. Jungle encroaches almost to the doorsteps of Kourou (pop. 7,000), in French Guiana. Only a few miles offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most infamous penal colony, and local waters teem with piranha and alligators...
Owen Thomas had lived through what is sometimes called a near death experience (NDE), a vivid, memorable sense of sights, sounds and events that occur while an individual is clinically dead or very close to the point of no return. Discussion of this phenomenon and other aspects of dying achieved an almost faddish popularity in the early and mid-1970s, following the publication of two bestsellers: On Death and Dying, a study of terminally ill patients, by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Life After Life, by Psychiatrist Raymond Moody...