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...plate, while the rest are sliding by, ever so slowly, on the Pacific plate; if they maintained present course and speed, they would arrive in San Francisco in a few millenniums. The gray, wooden posts serving as door jambs have moved 12 in. to the right. Outside, a drainage ditch zagged 18 in. Fire-fighting water lines that cross the fault have flexible joints to allow for earth movement...
Harvard's "ERA action team" students working to publicize the ratification campaign--signed up the nine volunteers as part of a last ditch nation-wide push to "educate the voting public on the truth behind the myth in the amendment," which has encountered increasing national opposition, Katherine K. Baker '84, coordinator of the project, said...
...never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin was already listing badly. Says former Publisher William McLean III of Charter's last-ditch attempts to save the paper: "They thought they could rescue it, but they had the same problems we did. Nothing could be done...
...Socialist Club led to any increased awareness on Reed's part of injustices in the world outside Harvard, it is doubtful that the thought germinated in his mind until, well after graduation, he mingled with the radical Bohemians of Greenwich Village. Reed's senior year saw his last-ditch efforts to gain acceptance by that part of Harvard that had always found him endearing in a distinctly unappealing fashion. The sidelines at Soldiers Field gave him an opportunity to romp around, and act out the clown many thought him. But, more important, was the Hasty Pudding Club, generally open only...
...economic aid, for increased power, and an increased ability to rule, to kill, and to corrupt." The story of El Salvadoran land reform is the story of a score of other U.S. efforts in other countries--piecemeal change offered when the time for piecemeal change has passed, a last-ditch attempt to keep the ruling elite intact...