Word: occured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...married. When it passed, they got divorced." Some people grew cautious or suspicious. Grocer Greg Drew and some of his friends have bought radio scanners so they can monitor police and forest-service frequencies to get as much advance warning as possible of any new explosion that might occur. "We are not sure they are letting out all they know," says Drew...
...majority tells us that no such thing will occur. Instead, Pernod ads and others with luscious blondes will continue to appear on these pages because their offense against women is at this stage subliminal and because The Crimson needs to make money to stay in business...
Critics of the Reagan proposal, however, doubt that this would occur. They argue that consumers are more likely to spend the money provided by the tax cut, thus encouraging more demand in the economy and fueling inflation. Says Stanford University Economist Michael Boskin, one of the earliest supporters of supply-side economics: "The President's tax cut will simply not have a large impact on savings. The bulk of the effect will be to increase spending." Adds Democratic Economist Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The Reagan tax cut is simply not supply-side economics. Only about 6% of it would...
...just wasn't supposed to happen. But that's exactly what did occur when the Harvard men's tennis team marched home from the Palmer Dixon courts last Saturday with an 8-1 win over Yale. The triumph boosted the Crimson's record to 6-0 in the Ivies, 9-5 overall...
...luck obeys the laws of a spooky kind of antiphysics, but it responds to risk and reflexes. To some extent, it is true that people make their own luck. Given a lucky chance at the story, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ran hard. Good luck must have room to occur. It can be encouraged, even though its exact mechanics remain perverse and mysterious. For its part, bad luck is so eventually inevitable that it is almost a sin to be surprised...