Word: huges
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added, "It was odd--the huge preparations and expense to the school that it took for him to speak for an hour...
...Most firms don't include pro bono work when they figure their billable hours," Butts adds. "So the associates who do it are taking on a bigger chore than their colleagues. That's a huge disadvantage...
...Valentine's Day is a time when we really need a party," she said. "It's always so stressful. Either you make the huge statement or you have to break up. Or you feel like Charlie Brown without a date. We want this to be something where everyone can come and dance and do their own thing...
...well-drilled 585-man fire department proved all but useless: broken mains left the city without water. Scattered blazes soon converged into fire storms that gobbled up huge swaths of the city. The inferno spread despite desperate attempts to create firebreaks by dynamiting whole blocks of homes and businesses. Writer Jack London, who lived in Sonoma County, said what everyone saw: "I knew it was all doomed...
Those precautions saved hundreds of lives. In San Francisco modern office high-rises, many standing on huge steel-and-rubber springs deep below their foundations, rode out the bucking movement, bouncing and swaying as much as 30 ft. from side to side without cracking open. Within minutes after the quaking subsided, emergency response teams, honed by hundreds of hours of drills, began rescuing victims, sealing off dangerously weakened structures and coordinating relief efforts...