Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with, he's never given me a set of mental blocks for my birthday. He doesn't administer electroshock therapy when I'm naughty. And I don't have a driving desire to marry my mother...
...third ring, I begin to think that maybe nobody else is home after all. I make a mad dive for the phone, not wanting to have to run upstairs to turn the answering machine off when the fourth ring comes...
...Salinas Valley town of Hollister (pop. 11,500) experiences temblors so frequently that some of the townspeople proudly call it the Earthquake Capital of the World. At 5:04 p.m., 19-year-old Albert Valles was working out in a gym when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...
...least one original sponsor still defends his offspring. Says Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm: "It's bashing time for Gramm-Rudman, but our biggest critics are those who weren't for it to begin with. Without the law, our federal deficit would have been larger than...
This quake did not begin to exhaust the pent-up energy in the 800-mile-long San Andreas system. In a list of seismic danger zones compiled by an expert panel last year, the section around Santa Cruz ranked only sixth. The area believed most likely to have a devastating quake...