Word: faults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state real estate agents continue to receive inquiries from Angelenos who want to pull up stakes because of what Clearwater, Florida, agent Richard Cope calls L.A.'s "last-straw" phenomenon. "They all want charts of the fault lines in our area," explains Karen Lind, deputy director of Colorado's business-development office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing...
That is the realization dawning throughout the 14 republics along its periphery that Moscow somewhat possessively refers to as the "near abroad." In the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine and across Central Asia, Russia has been engaged in a bold game of restoring its influence. By applying pressure along ethnic fault lines and playing rival political factions against one another, Moscow has succeeded in making its presence count among its former vassals. At the same time, Russian diplomats have ventured farther abroad, playing a successful part in easing the Bosnian conflict -- most recently by persuading the Serbs to open the airport...
...officials, by contrast, allege that the slow delivery "is the Cambridge Post Office's fault. "This claim is about as empty as the mailboxes of the class of 1997, as the Cambridge Post office is literally working overtime to sort Harvard students' mail before it is picked up by Harvard's private courier...
...Others fault the initial screening process. "Ijust don't think that there's that much evaluationof teaching ability involved in the selection,"says Martin...
...Students] get mad at us but it's the Cambridge Post Office's fault," said the supervisor of the HYMC...