Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final price tag? $11 to $12 billion, athree-to-four fold increase from the initialestimate...
...thrust faults were largely overlooked until 1983, when a fierce temblor hit the small central California town of Coalinga. The culprit turned out to be a deeply buried fault (four to 10 miles down) that no one had known about. Its only sign on the surface had been a fold, or buckling, in the earth's crust. Many scientists had thought such folds were harmless, formed by an imperceptibly gradual lifting of the ground. But when Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and geologist Robert Yeats of Oregon State University examined the seismic record of fold belts...
Resolution co-sponsor Sharon L. Wing '97predicted that the fair's accomplishments could betwo-fold...
...benefits of the resolution are two-fold,"Mark P. Connolly '96, motion co-sponsor said."We're offering both preventive training beforeT.F.'s start teaching and then evaluations at theend to make sure they did their jobs well...
...until elections are held next year, is to consist of 20 members, 10 from the P.L.O. executive committee in Tunis and 10 from the occupied territories. Arafat will be chairman, but the other members have not been selected, and Tunis is filled with job seekers. Arafat also needs to fold in the leaders who have emerged in the territories, people like Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi...