Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then everybody went on vacation. Not just the students, but almost all the people who should have been monitoring the heating temperature in the rooms, making sure that the flood that took place in several Houses and freshman dormitories did not occur...
...doctors have been increasingly reluctant to practice in rural areas. Besides making less money than their urban colleagues, rural doctors must always be on call. When emergencies occur, they often travel great distances...
...York section of the book is weaker; perhaps it should have been written by a Soviet. For the satire of the left-wing academic community lacks teeth, and too many plot turns seem to occur in the last third of the novel, sim ply because something has to happen. One touch, however, indicates the book's essential virtue. Yuri Maximovich is trying to decide whether to defect. To stall for time, he must sell out and read the KGB's poem. He does so. But first, more artist than survivor, he takes the wretched thing apart and sharpens...
...were filed five years ago-against companies that turn out allegedly faulty products. And though American workers were involved in 200,000 fewer on-the-job accidents in 1974 than in 1973, increased medical costs raised the insurers' bill for covering the 2.3 million accidents that did occur to $13.6 billion, a rise of $800 million over...
Considering the amount of traffic in some of the nation's air space, it should be no surprise that such near accidents occur. What is surprising, given the chances for mechanical and human failure both on the ground and in the cockpit, is that there are so few collisions. Of 81 fatal accidents suffered by airlines during the past decade, only seven involved collisions...