Word: occurs
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...Colvin says that the majority of applications have only one or two choices listed, indicating that students are more interested in moving into a new house than out of their old one. McNally says that most of the transfers she has seen in her eight years at Dunster House occur "because people want to move closer to their friends...
Rosenthal says "God only knows why they have seat belts in airplanes," and goes on to question their usefulness. Seat belts are an absolutely essential safety appliance in any airplane. During critical takeoff and landing maneuvers any one of a number of situations may occur requiring the crew to take emergency action resulting in rapid acceleration or deceleration. People not wearing seatbelts in such situations would certainly incur injuries through impact with bulkheads, seatbacks and even other passengers. Furthermore, during the enroute phase of flight, turbulence may be encountered which, besides just jarring the aircraft, can place...
...tenure, such a defense is unacceptable. In those seven years two full classes of American history concentrators have graduated, none of whom who could receive help on a senior thesis on the 20th Century from a professor "worthy" of tenure. If a "renaissance" of talent in the field does occur, Harvard will have played little part in bringing it about...
Indeed, the more difficult negotiations may occur not between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. but between the U.S. and Western Europe -- or perhaps among the Europeans themselves. Those who fear an American "decoupling" from the defense of Europe are in a box, and unlike Shultz they do not find it wonderful. The idea of a denuclearized continent is far from unpopular with a European public nervous about becoming the first targets in a nuclear war. With rare exceptions such as Thatcher, no leader dares argue openly that getting rid of U.S. nuclear missiles is a bad idea. Still less will anyone...
...provisions are too broad for the sole dissenting commission member, Rutgers Law Professor Paul Robinson, who charges ! that the report is riddled with loopholes. "If Congress asked for Rambo," he says, "what it got was Don Knotts." Counters Commission Member Stephen Breyer, a federal appeals judge: "Departures shouldn't occur that often." When they do, he adds, the reasons that judges give "will be analyzed, and the guidelines will be refined." The new system is scheduled to go into effect in November, but the commission, which is a permanent body, has recommended that Congress delay implementation until August...