Word: occurs
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...This may be the major inconsistency in Huntington's theory. Clearly, since Blacks have never been allowed to vote, no one will know until after some sort of negotiations occur whether or not Blacks will follow a given leader. Huntington neglects to mention in his discussion that Mandela remains the consistent winner of all popularity polls among South African Blacks. See Mark Orkin, Disinvestment, the Struggle and the Future: What Black South Africans Really Think (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1986), p. 35. Huntington does not, incidentally, mention 11. Shula Marks, The Ambiguities of Dependence: Class, Nationalism and the State in Twentieth...
Problems, of course, ensue. The CIA director notes the "mess" that will occur "if the Israelis find out that we're running an agent at the top of the P.L.O." Furthermore, Rogers and his colleagues in Lebanon slowly discover themselves embroiled in a game with no recognizable rules. After a possibly dangerous mission early in his tenure there, Rogers remarks, "Nobody in the Middle East would dare harm a representative of the United States." This is before the car bombs start blowing Beirut apart...
...drug has one drawback. Since reinfection can always occur, most victims of onchocerciasis will have to take ivermectin for life. That is a small price to pay. Notes Hugh Taylor, a researcher at Johns Hopkins who has tested the drug in Senegal: "After treatment, people come up to me and say, 'Look how beautiful my skin is -- and no itching...
...dictionaries, much less write them; that is the way of linguistic evolution. So is there any point in resisting changes that may be inevitable? Yes, indeed, as the late poet and translator John Ciardi eloquently argued. "Those who care," Ciardi wrote, "have a duty to resist. Changes that occur against such resistance are tested changes. The language is the better for them -- and for the resistance." It is regrettable that RHD-II resists so little. But it is admirable that it erects such a splendid arena in which to carry on the struggle...
...Except for the fact that he was obviously notcollege-age, he looked normal," DelaRosa said. "Itdidn't occur to me that he was a robber...