Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans respond to disasters and potential disasters is a subject worth dwelling upon. The permanent damage of the stock market's bounciness seems negligible at this point. And while dozens of people were killed in the San Francisco earthquake, and tens of thousands were left homeless, hundreds of millions of people all over the country saw, heard, read or talked about both incidents...
REALLY big: numbers played an integral role in both New York and San Francisco. Perhaps academics who complain of America's mathematical illiteracy will be encouraged. A disaster is not worth getting excited about, it seems, until a number has been attached...
...know about the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and we all know that it's supposed to happen again sometime. The epic aerial shots of the city-on-the-bay that the television networks played throughout last Tuesday evening certainly carried enough historical grandeur to fit into a future documentary on the 20th century. The World Series angle could only help: putting the Series off for more than a week nearly guarantees an historical asterisk, at least. And we were there...
...real World Series is set to resume on Friday. On the other hand, seismologists say the real San Francisco earth-quake is still set for the coming decades. As for the stock market crash--well, the economists don't know. If the real crash ever does come, George Bush may well manage to stay aloof. Most of the rest of us, though, won't be able to afford to cheer...
...Rebels. Their first big mistake was trying to persuade Noriega to retire peacefully instead of killing him or handing him over to the U.S. Their second was counting on Major Francisco Olechea, commander of the elite Battalion 2000, to be neutral; instead, he brought his troops to Noriega's rescue. The widow of the slain coup leader Major Moises Giroldi called Olechea a turncoat. Some U.S. officials, however, suspect that Olechea switched sides because he did not get timely assurances that Giroldi and his troops had succeeded in capturing Noriega. He waited for more than two hours after he knew...