Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbeau, who counseled relatives and colleagues of the dead after two air disasters that left no survivors-the 1978 San Diego crash of a 727 and the DC-10 crash in Chicago last May-says the shock resulting from these crashes was more widespread than usual I among airline employees...
Seismologists now believe they have part of the answer. Using oil-exploration equipment, they bounced sound waves off the subterranean rock where the tremors were centered. The echoes yielded a surprising profile of this hidden structure.
The U.S. Geological Survey scientists mapped only a small section of this fault zone-in Arkansas' Mississippi and Craighead counties-but they suspect it continues north for some 100 km (62 miles), through Arkansas and northwestern Tennessee. There the fault system veers off past New Madrid and probably continues...
Big Three auto sales last month were down a jarring 23% from a year ago, and the industry has laid off 93,600 of its 765,400 hourly workers. Executive recruiters are receiving considerably fewer requests to find and hire managers.
There is no way to reduce the crushing costs except to burn much more coal, continue with nuclear power, speed the development of synthetics and solar, move to mandatory conservation, and, of course, drill for more domestic oil. Last week, overriding objections of environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to...