Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular bugaboo. It dutifully acknowledged the errors two months later -- after others had repeated them. Editor Charles Peters now says his writers usually do check with people they criticize. "The time you don't do it," he adds, "is when everyone knows what the other guy would say. Even then, it should be done...
...Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm. Looking out a window from her home in suburban Sunnyvale, Neta Lott remarked to her husband Byron that the Indian-summer evening of Oct. 17 seemed like "darned good earthquake weather." Moments later, the shaking and rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would...
...fire fighters finally managed to pry Cathy loose. Then doctors who had rushed to the scene from Oakland hospitals made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...
...their lobbies. At the darkened Stanford Court, complimentary caviar and smoked salmon were served by candlelight. The motive was not mere generosity: the comestibles would have spoiled without refrigeration. At the Mandarin Oriental, a manager explained, "We're doing our best to give our guests first-class comfort, even while bedding them down in the lobby." The expense-account Seven Hills of San Francisco Restaurant served a free sidewalk lunch to anyone who passed by. ) Bankers in three-piece suits munched chicken wings beside bearded homeless...
...catastrophe on I-880, the loss of life was remarkably small considering the area's population and the power of the tremor. If last week's quake was a dress rehearsal for police, rescue workers, support services and citizens, they performed admirably. And they learned enough to be even better prepared for that long-dreaded day when the earth trembles again...