Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory, such forecasting should be easy. All tremors are preceded by small movements in the earth's crust. As these shifts occur, usually along existing faults in the crust, they cause a gradual buildup of stresses and strains that must eventually be released, sometimes violently...
Brown's major problem will be depth. If injuries occur, the Bruins are ruined. Many have already picked Brown to take the Ivy championship, however, so maybe there is something to all the commotion in Providence...
...released last week. Overall, however, the Congress has not yet fully earned such a rise in confidence stemming from its handling of the Watergate scandal. It has yet to enact a single bill that would make future Watergate-type abuses of presidential authority and political campaigns less likely to occur...
...Delegate Christian A. Herter Jr. warned that North American food reserves available for emergencies are now down to 27 days of world consumption. "Meanwhile," said Herter, "200,000 more people are born each day and have to be fed." Clearly, a catastrophic famine could some day occur, and Herter's warnings appeared to be merely stating the obvious...
...exact effects of American strategy overseas may never be completely known. World War III-which 74% of Americans once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or sheer chance? What the cold war did to the U.S. can be more easily measured, especially since the partisanship that once labeled as un-American any evenhanded inquiry into the subject has now faded...