Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civic pride in San Benito County. Explains Edna Martin, manager of the Howard Manor apartments in Hollister: "You get used to the small ones. You feel the rumble, but that is about all. Five years ago, the water in the pool flowed back and forth, and we had to fill it. But I try not to panic my tenants. We have an ideal climate here. We are close to everything. You adapt." Adds David G. Edwards, director of mental-health services in the county: "I have not treated a single case of earthquake anxiety yet." Edwards works in Hollister...
...scraping. The park, according to local Businessman Howard Harris, "has the most active movement in the world," with an average creep of 11 mm (.44 in.) each day. But visitors expecting to see a gaping fracture in the earth's surface are usually disappointed. In fact, erosion and fill camouflage the San Andreas fault along most of its 600-mile length...
Iran's principal supporters in the Middle East, Libya and Syria, have been able to fill only part of the country's arms needs. Tehran has thus had to turn for help to a strange assortment of suppliers. A significant portion of the arms shipments going to Iran comes from the Soviet Union, East Germany and North Korea. Israel, which regards Iraq as its most implacable enemy among the Muslim states, has sold Iran Israeli-made weapons such as sea-to-sea and air-to-air missiles, as well as some parts for the U.S.-made...
MADISON, Wise--The university of Wisconsin has nation the hockey attendance every year since 1970 with crowds that would fill Bright Center nearly three times over at almost even game But it's just numbers the number that make the Wisconsin faithful special...
...marketing gimmicks have ever been able to touch the gasoline credit card. With more than 36.4 million such company-issued cards in the wallets and purses of American motorists, stopping for a fill-up has rarely been much tougher than pulling into a station, whipping out the plastic and announcing, "Charge it!" The gasoline credit card was, indeed, one of the first mass-marketed charge cards, appearing as long ago as 1914 when Texaco, then a young company, began distributing them to customers...