Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese. "China cannot afford internal turmoil--tendencies toward unity will be much tighter than most Western reporters anticipate--but there will be confusion. That is, there is a possibility of general paralysis, with very deleterious effects, especially economic." Hofheinz believes polarization along the radical-moderate lines could occur only outside the leadership that the foreign press is so fascinated with. "There is an outside possibility," he says, that "someone will call for and try to drum up support in external circles--that is, outside of the few dozen people who govern China...
...emotional experience, for the concepts of forgiveness and love have extensive impact that people who have been born again feel reach cords in the human psyche that few experiences in life can touch. A change in lifestyle can occur because of the very strength of the truth one has apprehended and applied to his life...
Most of the economic growth of this country over the next 25 years is going to occur in the Sunbelt. As the South grows, we have an opportunity to avoid the mistakes in urban growth that the North has made. I realize that you will have people of different economic levels living apart-the urban trend in the North has resulted in white suburbs and black ghettoes. That isn't easy to avoid; it is a matter of making housing opportunities available without discrimination...
...Coonassa relates the story of his life in a succession of hilarious vignettes, beginning with his birth, which took place in a time and place when things "Gaelic" traditionally occur: "the middle of the night in the end of the house." Darkness, and the pigs and people lying in the rushes in the end of the house create the atmosphere of the novel throughout. The pigs, especially, make atmosphere; one chapter describes a near-fatal smothering of the O'Coonassa family due to the smell of the pigs, "and a certain Ambrose, in particular...
...should withdraw and permit the inevitable to occur...