Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, found himself in that very position this August, and the University has quickly taken steps to ensure that a similar mishap does not occur again...
Revolutions will probably not occur in South Africa or in the Third World without heavy outside pressure to weaken the existing regimes there, Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, told an audience of about 40 people at the Cambridge Forum last night...
...publications. Other chains take pains to maintain the utmost respect for the opinions of its editors. In all cases, however, the bottom line totals dollars and cents, not editorial excellence. If a paper removes itself so far editorially from its subscribers and advertisers that financial repercussions occur, the business experts will most assuredly intervene for the sake of corporate survival. Consequently, newspapers must reflect, to a large degree, the thoughts and opinions of their readers, regardless of the ideologies of newspaper owners or editors. But somewhere along the line, newspapers are able to exercise a fair amount of control...
...chain of events in an imaginary meltdown in April 1991 at the nuclear plant currently proposed for Montague, Massachusetts, a town in the Connecticut River Valley. The Hampshire authors investigate with impressive detail and strong factual arguments the possible scenario. Included are chapters on how the meltdown might occur (following several sections succinctly explaining the workings of a reactor), how radioactivity would be released, an estimate of both short-and long-term casualties, and an estimate of the effects of radioactivity on the environment, specifically food and water supplies...
Actual suicides by children under 14 are still rare; fewer than 200 a year occur in the U.S. But investigators are finding that attempted suicides and deep depression are unexpectedly common among emotionally disturbed youngsters. Psychiatrist Joaquim Puig-Antich of Columbia University, who has conducted a pilot study in this little-explored area, estimates that perhaps one out of every 200 American prepubertal children is despondent enough to think of suicide. Of the 50 depressed children he has treated over the past three years, 70% had suicidal thoughts and about a third had tried to kill themselves...