Word: americans
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...trio of quakes has another distinction. Most major quakes occur around the boundaries of the great moving plates that form the earth's outer layers. One such region lies along California's quake-prone San Andreas fault, where the North American plate and the adjacent Pacific plate are grinding horizontally against each other as they move in opposite directions. When friction causes these plates to stick, stresses build up that are eventually released in a quake when the rock suddenly fractures and the plates lurch ahead. Yet the New Madrid area lies in the very heart...
...gravitational surveys: a great underground rift in the earth's crust marked by the subsidence of rock over an area at least 190 km (120 miles) long and 50 km (30 miles) wide. Scientists believe this rift was created several hundred million years ago, when the North American plate began to split and molten rock from the interior welled toward the surface. Though the breakup halted-for reasons as inexplicable as the original movement-a weak area remains in the form of the rift...
...Louis University researchers have found that as the entire North American plate moves, this area is squeezed, causing mostly horizontal movement along the fault today...
...efficacy of ECT and by charges that it was being used excessively and indiscriminately in institutions that were little more than "shock mills." Between 1972 and 1977 in New York State, for example, use of ECT dropped by 38%. Across the nation, according to a 1978 report by the American Psychiatric Association, one-third of psychiatrists have reservations about the practice...
Breaking the inflationary psychology after 15 years of ever higher prices will be a titanic task. The American consumer has developed the attitude of "buy now before it's higher," as new figures showed again last week. Consumer installment debt exploded by a record $4.5 billion during September to a total of $303.9 billion. The lemming-like rush of consumers into debt could force the Federal Reserve to push interest rates still higher or perhaps to begin limiting the amount of credit available...