Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear a crack like thunder," says U.S. Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
...WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN HERE. NOT IN America. Not in New York City. But it did. On Friday, just past noon, what is believed to be a car bomb exploded in an underground garage beneath Manhattan's 110-story World Trade Center. The blast and the resulting smoke and fire killed at least five people and injured 1,042. It forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the buildings. It snarled traffic, stopped train service and knocked TV stations (many had antennas on the roof) off the air. The blast created a 200-ft. by 100-ft. crater...
...opposition is mobilizing too. Republican leaders will blast Clinton as a tax-happy promoter of "class warfare," in the words of House minority whip Newt Gingrich. The United Seniors Association vows to have its members send 1 million letters to Washington protesting any tinkering with Social Security. But business groups, while hardly enthusiastic about higher corporate taxes, have been holding their fire; there are some hints that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may wind up endorsing the plan. For all those who have spent years bemoaning deficits, the opportunity to do more than complain about them is finally here...
...volcano seemed to take a big breath, first sucking in air, then exploding," said a Colombian tourist who survived unhurt. Garcia and Menyailov died in an instant in the 600 degreesC blast of toxic gases. On the western rim of the cone, British geologist Geoffrey Brown and two Colombian colleagues were also incinerated as gas and heat spurted upward...
...THEIR QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, SCIENTISTS WILL take advantage of anything that's helpful, even a nuclear blast. Studies of the shock waves given off by a Chinese .66-megaton nuclear test have revealed a "continent" 2,000 miles underground, at the boundary between the molten iron of the planet's core and the molten rock just above it. The word continent is used loosely; what two scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey found was a region 200 miles across and 80 miles deep that is denser than surrounding regions. The implication: the core-mantle boundary may be as complex...