Word: bradyseism
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Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to...
...another distinction. Perched atop a geologically active area that includes Vesuvius and boiling sulfur springs named the Campi Flegrei ("Fiery Fields"), the ancient town has been quite literally rising and falling at least since Roman times. These terrestrial undulations-an example of what some geologists call bradyseisms (from the Greek roots bradys, or slow, and seismos, earthquake) -usually occur gradually and imperceptibly. But lately Pozzuoli has been moving at an extaordinary rate. Last week, after parts of Pozzuoli had risen as much as three feet in the past six months, the town fathers began ordering mass evacuations...
The Brady brothers, who have worked on and off as contract drillers for oil companies, got their first hint of Mexican sulphur 15 years ago when Ashton picked up a 1904 Shell Oil Co. exploration report. It told of salt domes on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a geological formation that...
Moving northward, the Bradys soon struck it really rich; in the Jáltipan area they found a great dome that may be the world's biggest, surpassing even Texas' famed Boling Dome, which has yielded 40 million tons. This time the Bradys turned over production rights to...
Up to the Penthouse. Since then, the Bradys have found sulphur in still a third area, Salinas, and formed their own Gulf Sulphur Corp. They get the same profitable deal the Mexican government has made with the other companies: a 20-year agreement under which they pay production royalties of...