Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were to mount a truly University-widecampaign, I'm chauvinist enough to think that ifPenn can raise $1 billion, Harvard can raise $2billion," he says...
...took a while for the Glasers to mount their onslaught on Square shoppers. After signing a lease in summer 1988, the owners encountered the red tape of Cambridge's historical commission. Because the store's location has historical status, it took a while to get building permits for the 7000-square foot renovations...
...believe that Bay Area residents may be peculiarly vulnerable to the syndrome, precisely because they have been anticipating a cataclysm for years. "Chronic stress is very harmful," notes Dr. James Shore of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, who surveyed victims of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. "Preparedness can make people more susceptible...
There are other distress signals as well. Interest in food or sex often flags, while indulgence in alcohol or drugs deepens. People may be jumpy and their tempers short. In the first seven months after the Mount St. Helens blowup, reports of domestic violence in Othello, Wash., increased 45%, and criminal arrests went up 22%, according to one study. The most profound impact is a new sense of vulnerability. Victims wonder when disaster will strike again and conjure up fresh calamities. "Disasters like earthquakes challenge a fundamental fantasy that we live with: that we're immortal," explains psychiatrist David Spiegel...
...giddiness lingered. Entrepreneurs appeared on the streets, hawking $20 T shirts with the slogan I SURVIVED THE QUAKE OF '89, and shops announced half-price earthquake sales. But the mood turned to grimness as the extent of the destruction became clear. Officials estimated that property damage could mount to $10 billion or more, probably surpassing the losses from Hurricane Hugo. Throughout the quake zone, residents awoke to a crazy quilt of destruction in which some buildings were leveled while neighboring structures survived intact. In San Juan Bautista the 125-year-old home of restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only...