Word: occurred
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...gravest crises to occur recently in many U.S. households happened on Christmas Day, when the 82-minute and 40-second televised struggle between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, the longest in professional football history (see SPORT), left many a turkey dinner in limbo-and many more of the nation's "football widows" in a state of frustrated anger. Now, if the housewives buy the theory of a Brooklyn psychoanalyst, they have even more to grumble about...
...agreement is only one step on the long, hard road toward a much-needed basic reform of the world monetary system. The change should occur by eliminating gold as a monetary standard and substituting a more easily regulated, man-made unit backed by the International Monetary Fund. A few such units, called Special Drawing Rights, are already in existence. Unfortunately, to many politicians, bankers and ordinary citizens, the thought of a reserve currency not backed by gold or something equally scarce is still anathema. Another problem will be the nearly $50 billion in dollars that have left...
...should relocation occur? The U.S. was either planning to step up the conventional bombing of northernmost South Vietnam and-or to use tactical nuclear weapons to stem infiltration from North Vietnam. In either case, but especially in the case of tactical nuclear weapons, it would be more "desirable" to have the civilians out of the way beforehand...
Neatest reach for historical verisimilitude: Robbins, who in a flashback has Hardeman telephone Walter Reuther in 1937 to warn him that the Battle of the Overpass (in which auto company goons beat up unsuspecting union organizers) is about to occur. · John Skow
...such a technology is developed, man still revolt against it. As Dostoevsky says, man "would still do something out of sheer perversity--he would create destruction and chaos--just to gain his point...And if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go man to prove his point." Michael Ryan