Word: intact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reputation Intact...
...line-item plan, the President can undo and nullify compromises as he wishes. Suppose, for example, that liberal and conservative congressmen compromise on a spending bill, while a liberal president is in office. The President will, of course, veto the conservative provisions of the bill but will leave intact the bill's liberal aspects. The resulting law, bearing only partial resemblance to the measure which Congress originally passed, is now unacceptable to the conservatives who voted for it. And since these conservatives would most likely not compose a two-thirds majority, they could not override the item vetoes. Had they...
Runways at Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport were largely intact, but flights into the stricken capital were halted for a while as officials checked for damage. By nightfall, Mexican airlines and most U.S. carriers resumed service. Some of the initial eyewitness accounts of the tragedy came from travelers on the first flights...
...kind of seismic party line, one earthquake may signal that another could occur; sites that lie between past gaps hit by recent tremors are the areas most likely to rupture next, rather the way buttons popping on a shirt put greater pressure on the buttons still intact. Noting that earthquakes in the 20th century have periodically shaken surrounding regions, geologists knew that Mexico's Michoacan gap--quiescent for many decades--could not hold out forever. "Wherever stress builds up for a long time in a seismic gap," says David Simpson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, "something...
...starboard anchor chains are wrapped around their capstans, still holding the anchors in place, and in the top deck there is a gaping hole that was once a skylight. Through it, Ballard told his viewers, "you can see right down the grand staircase." The railings and wooden deck are intact, the individual planks clearly visible. The davits still hang empty over the side, their lifeboats, which saved only 700 of the ship's 2,200 passengers, long gone...