Word: mount
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Supporters of each proposal are expected to mount massive lobbying campaigns nationwide among college president...
...senior at Mount Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, I can attest to the fact that students are also concerned about the quality of the education they are receiving. At our school, we organized the Student Peer Assistance Program to promote better academic achievement. We give awards and offer counseling and advice on college. Although students cannot change the curriculum or improve the quality of their teachers, they can at least influence young people. We students play an important role in the quest for quality education...
...Lebanon seemed to be ever more fragile, as each army and armed gang used the respite to rebuild spent arsenals. Last week the Administration was becoming convinced that Syria has decided its best bet for preserving its leverage over the country is to wait for Marine casualties to mount and the U.S. to pull out. "The Syrians are dragging their feet," Reagan said at his midweek press conference. "If they're doing it with the idea of wearing me down, they're going to be dis appointed." He had idea, of course, just how much U.S. patience would...
...initial indication of such terrestrial turmoil came in 1975, when Mount Baker, a 10,750-ft. volcanic peak in northwestern Washington, began to puff and fume. Vented steam has continued to melt ice around the summit crater of the mountain, which is only 90 miles from Seattle. The Geological Survey says that rising magma in the mountain's cone may be stoking Mount Baker's internal fires. Magma is hot, melted rock from deep within the earth that fuels volcanoes and becomes visible as lava when it breaks through the crust...
...rise of magma is often accompanied by swarms of small local earthquakes. Such tremors, which enable scientists to estimate how close to the surface the magma may be, have been felt at Mount Hood in neighboring Oregon and at Mount Shasta in Northern California as well as Mount St. Helens. In addition, the USGS study notes that since 1982 earthquakes have shaken California's Coso Range, a volcanic region west of Death Valley; Yellowstone National Park, which is famed for its hot springs and geysers, notably Old Faithful; and Mammoth Lakes, a popular California ski resort near the Nevada...