Word: fault
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Maybe his sense of apocalypse is heightened by living so close to the San Andreas Fault. During a fund-raising luncheon at his alma mater. Illinois' Eureka College. California's Governor Ronald Reagan applied a truculently ominous-// extremely loose -interpretation of history to the condition of the U.S. "The young men of Rome began avoiding military service," said Reagan, who tripped up a hit on the distinction between Spengler's Decline of the West and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "[They] took to wearing feminine-like hairdos and garments, until it became...
...after an hour and a half with three of the most influential men in Development and International Relations. I knew not one whit more than I did when I started. I was not prepared to believe that it was my fault. They would not concede me my "pay" as a reporter. Since I was to come away with nothing more than a University News Office press release, then they would learn to communicate a little with the next reporter. I decided...
Blowing up a bad thing will relieve much of that tension. So that the preceding sentence doesn't become evidence for any of the rampant psychological reductionism theories about radicals, it should be pointed out that the psychological problems most of us have are very directly capitalism's fault. In fact most of what you could blow up in this society is a cause of at least a few people's psychosis...
Writing in Science, the Miami seismologists argue that nuclear devices might relieve the stresses before they go on the rampage. Exploded two to three miles underground at intervals of twelve to 30 miles along a fault zone, the bombs would set off a series of relatively small shocks. Properly timed, these jolts would jog along the crust ever so slightly to release the forces working against it. The blasts would, in effect, be seismic safety valves, letting off small but significant amounts of pressure whenever an earthquake threatened...
Small Aftershocks. "The chances are small, but not zero," says Seismologist Lynn Sykes of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. He and other scientists think that a less dangerous method of earthquake control might be to pump liquid into a fault region. Such fluids would relieve stresses by acting, in part, as underground lubricants. Yet this method also poses dangers. In the Denver area, for example, recent shocks were apparently triggered by the disposal of chemical wastes in deep underground wells...