Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galvanized by the fear that they may be next, Southern Californians are urgently reassessing their plans for coping with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling...
...long been aware of its special vulnerabilities. Its water comes in by aqueducts that a big quake would fracture. Like the devastated Marina district in San Francisco, parts of coastal communities such as Marina Del Rey, Venice and Long Beach are built on sandy soil and landfill that could liquefy during a temblor, amplifying its destructive impact. State transportation officials last week handed the city council a list of 48 highway bridges and overpasses that need reinforcement to withstand a powerful quake. Cost: $32 million. Los Angeles' city engineer Robert Horii informed the city council that $100 million worth...
...this is one area in which those who lament America's low savings rate and high trade deficit could -- I'm not saying should, that's their business -- vote differently...
...They could buy a less expensive car than they otherwise might, investing the difference, as the Indians should have, to grow richer. (Actually, many of us are not buying the trinkets with money we have. We're borrowing to buy the trinkets, which is really insane...
...They could buy an American car, even if it began to shimmy at 90 or 100 m.p.h. on the autobahn...