Word: occurred
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...Detroit stem the onslaught of Japan's strongest competitors? That depends on how well the Big Three learn the lessons of lean and efficient manufacturing that those competitors have to teach. Among them: treating workers like people rather than parts and catching defects before they occur rather than trying to fix them afterward...
...reason is not that physicists really believe time travel can ever actually occur. But the fact that it appears possible in principle challenges the very foundations of physics. What does it mean if an effect can theoretically precede a cause? What if, to use a theme from science fiction, a person could go into the past and kill his or her grandmother at an early age? Such a concept appears to make no sense, yet it must have some meaning if Gott's and Thorne's ideas are correct, as they appear to be. Says Gott: "At some point physics...
Since such a shift did not occur, "we now see decay products of sulfur dioxide that move into acid rain" instead of direct sulfur dioxide pollution, Dockery said...
...stealthy and highly maneuverable, a specification that helped push the cost of the plane to more than double that of the F-15. Planes must be agile to win dogfights, but since the ATF is supposed to destroy enemy aircraft long before it is seen, such encounters should never occur...
...most thankless tasks will be to sell the Kuwaitis on the timing of parliamentary elections. Many hoped the balloting would take place this year, so there was much grumbling when the Emir announced that it would be next year, "God willing." Now it appears the elections will occur not even in the spring of 1992 but in the fall, which surely will further anger the voters...