Word: occurred
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...computerized system that brakes the car if it's out of control), reduces the risk of single-vehicle accidents 41% and fatal ones 56%, according to a study released last week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Since half the 28,000 fatal passenger-vehicle accidents that occur each year involve a single vehicle, the report noted, some 7,000 lives could have been saved in 2003 alone if ESC had been a standard feature on all vehicles. The report follows similar findings released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in September...
Alfie’s is a believable and therefore successful story because all of the attempts Alfie makes to ameliorate the ways in which he’s hurt others ultimately fail. Alfie’s misfortunes are serious enough and occur close enough together to evoke the realization of his discontent. The film is utterly realistic in demonstrating that understanding mistakes is not always enough to rectify them...
...called because the majority winner is determined from a single round of voting—the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated from contention, and the voters who voted for this candidate have their second-choice votes awarded to remaining candidates. Successive eliminations and vote redistributions occur until there are only two candidates left, at which point one will have a majority of votes...
Remarkably, the Senate and House of Representatives never turned the Western Arctic Reserve—an area the size of South Dakota—into a federally protected wilderness. Instead, it was set aside by Congress as a petroleum reserve, with the stipulation that drilling could occur only in times of dire national crisis. Fair enough, but our country has borne energy hardships for 80 years without harvesting the oil from this beautiful preserve. We survived the oil embargo of the 1970s without extracting oil from the Western Arctic Reserve. The fact that oil prices have risen in the last...
...Flaws How could such a drastic shortage of vaccine occur? Because the system that makes it is prone to failure...