Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real basis for this claim. And most importantly, as one is left shouting in frustration at roommates and friends after reading this book--Why? Why does life work this way, what is the motor of the changes of eras and developmental tasks, what causes the cycle to occur? Is the engine of change biological or social? Levinson does not have the answer, but it would indeed be amazing if a discipline provided all the answers at the beginning of its researches instead of at the end. Life history is a new approach and stimulates new questions and new ways...
Because state officials estimated that only 20 per cent of the marijuana in the Commonwealth is from Mexico, where the paraquat spraying occurs, the state will test for the presence of the herbicide in marijuana confiscated throughout the Commonwealth, in order to decide whether a larger paraquat testing program is necessary. Cambridge should be commended for having foresight and common sense in trying to initiate the testing program, which will occur in city police labs if and when the state approves the project...
...more interesting events in Congress last week was a vote that did not occur. At the last minute, House Speaker Tip O'Neill postponed action on a tough ethics bill for Representatives. He feared it might be drastically watered down by opponents. Explained O'Neill: "The timing was just awful...
...Jakob Burckhardt, it seems ineradicable, like kudzu. In fact, Lorenzo de Medici was not a remarkable art patron; he preferred jewelry, knickknacks, antiques and rare manuscripts to either painting or contemporary sculpture. The idea of disinterested art patronage in the service of some imagined "public good" did not occur to him−any more than it would have occurred to his successors, the royal families and saber-toothed generalissimos of 16th and 17th century Europe, who amassed vast collections to glorify themselves and reinforce their power by visible imagery...
...administration proceeds and the Georgia accents gradually seep past amazement into the everyday, Dixie's interment may occur almost unnoticed...