Word: breaking
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Next year, 10 returning starters will lead the Crimson in its quest to break Brown's stranglehold on the Ivy title. But graduation will deprive the Crimson of Co-Captains Jen Gifford and Andrea Montalbano...
Ethics committee Chair Julian Dixon (D-Calif.) told reporters during a break in the hearing that "Atkins has recused himself on the Frank case and he will certainly not be present on the Frank case." Dixon has said earlier that Stokes would attend committee hearings only when Frank was being discussed...
...also question the "video camera" concept. Unfortunately, the "start up costs" would not be the only costs of such a system. Video cameras break at a finite frequency, and about 150 cameras would have to be functioning for the undergraduate community alone. Furthermore, the cameras are worthless unless they are taping. Harvard would be required to maintain a small army of technicians not only to keep the cameras working, but also to to change and store the tapes...
...break with its tradition of political neutrality, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) yesterday announced its formal opposition to the fall ballot referendum Proposition...
...mechanics of earthquakes are understood, accurate prediction of their occurrence has remained beyond reach. Earthquake forecasting is mostly based on past history. If a fault once generated a big earthquake, it can be assumed that it will do so again. But just where and when will the next big break occur? Here scientists are beginning to make headway. Geophysicist Wayne Thatcher of the USGS notes that the 1906 quake ruptured a 260-mile-long section of the San Andreas, extending from Cape Mendocino to San Juan Bautista. But the plate movement along the southern portion of the rupture was minor...