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...touring players, over one-half members of last year's Eastern Division Championship and Ivy League title winning team, hope that the tour will allow them to offset the loss of several key players graduating in June. It was a similar tour to England in 1979 that most say took the then two-year-old team and transformed it into the squad that stunned rugby partisans across the nation last year with their 18-game winning streak and final finish in the number-two slot at the National Championships...
...thirds of the way through a football game, one side is ahead 50 to 0, and they want to freeze the score for the rest of the game." Both Reagan and Meese were somewhat overstating the case, since NATO does have aircraft-and submarine-based missiles that partly offset the Soviet advantages...
Reagan's tax cuts will expand consumption, but large government deficits will offset any major economic expansion, said MIT economist Franco Modigliani...
...Hollister Hills Recreational Park south of town, whole packs of mild-mannered motorcyclists ride up and down the fault every weekend for $1.50 a day. Campers arriving early enough can pitch their tents or park their vans right on the fault line and get a closeup look at the offset streams, broken rock formations and hills forged by the geologic, scraping. The park, according to local Businessman Howard Harris, "has the most active movement in the world," with an average creep of 11 mm (.44 in.) each day. But visitors expecting to see a gaping fracture in the earth...
...offset curbs, sinking streets and chipped cement steps in Hollister testify to the fault's ornery nature. To appreciate its sheer power, a trip to Almaden's Cienega Winery ten miles to the south is instructive. From afar, nothing seems amiss: manicured vines growing Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes sweep to the base of the Gabilan Mountains. Up close, the scene is not so idyllic: the San Andreas splits the winery building like a conveyor belt. On the North American plate, employees are playing basketball. Across the road, on the Pacific plate, there is a seminar...