Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows she is in an earthquake. And she herself isn't hurt. What worries her is her mother, 83 and legally blind, living several blocks away. The trick, once Diane gets out from under the dresser, is leaving her apartment in the Northridge Meadows complex in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley and making sure her mother is all right. As Stillman crosses her bedroom, she thinks, this must have been a big one. Nearly everything in the apartment is on the floor. Then she hears a crack, and her dining area seems to list to the left and downward...
...hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and tedious process. At first it was thought that the quake might have resulted from a previously unmapped extension of the Oak Ridge Fault, which angles past the city of Ventura and into the Pacific Ocean. But as researchers fanned out through the San Fernando Valley, other theories emerged, including the possibility that the fault was not connected to any known system. Observes geophysicist Mark Zoback of Stanford University: "Individually these faults are smaller than the San Andreas and give rise to earthquakes that are less frequent and less severe. But collectively they represent...
...YORK CITY: Beginning during the holidays, $100 Toys R Us gift certificates. launched by Fernando Mateo, at center in photo, a 35-year-old Dominican-born carpet merchant whose one-man crusade has sparked fresh enthusiasm for such gun-exchange programs and inspired inquiries around the world...
...life of the paint surface and of each gesture held in it. Very few painters can do this. It is not a trick. This is the difference between painting something and merely rendering it -- between Freud's fat woman, which is radical art of the highest intensity, and, say, Fernando Botero's fat women, which are boring essays in the pneumatics of style...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...