Word: occured
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Fire season lit up again across the western U.S., swallowing tens of thousands of acres in California, Arizona, Nevada and seven other states. The most dramatic -- and costly -- of these blazes usually occur in the overbuiltcanyons of Southern California. This year is no exception: more than a dozen homes there have gone up in smoke as of tonight. parparparpar
...operating here. In fact, nothing is operating. The reader's reaction is vague exasperation. His mind simply does not have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such thoughts, of course, must occur regularly to gays when they read about heterosexual sex. You don't have to be a rabbit to enjoy Beatrix Potter, but you may have to be either gay or straight to appreciate gay or straight erotica...
...gruesome footage that was available -- a shot of the boy slumped in his car, another of his mother's covered body being carried from their home. Instead the story was told by old-fashioned talking heads: reporters describing the events; child therapists talking about why such tragedies occur...
...great stock picker, brought in by Salomon to handle its damage control. The Sears version went as follows: "We strongly believe that these instances were isolated and there has been no pattern of this conduct." Sears also said, "In the automotive business, mistakes can and will occur...
Brazil is one of the largest producers of thalidomide because it is home to perhaps 300,000 people who suffer from leprosy. About 30,000 of them take the drug to soothe the excruciating pain and eradicate the lesions that occur in severe cases of the infection. The only alternative treatment, corticosteroids, does not work as quickly or as completely. "The pain was so great that I couldn't walk," says Irani, 24, a former patient at the Santa Isabel leper colony. "I almost died. Thalidomide was my salvation...