Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several students interviewed, for instance, remember Abernathy's graphic illustration of the natural frequency of a body: the John Hancock building, which swayed in the wind and dropped windows on those below until a huge oil tank was placed on its top floor to change its frequency...
...talking about migrant farm workers or roustabouts following the latest oil gusher," says University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky. "These are people with degrees, in their 30s or 40s, with some money and property, in midcareer with professional ambitions -- the very people who would have flocked to L.A. in the past." With them the state loses the economic value of their skills and the social value of their activism in the communities where they would be raising families. "They will be missed, absolutely," Jablonsky adds. "Southern California seems to be losing some of the leading talent of the 21st...
...shimmy. If this was not the Big One, then it is almost impossible to imagine what that would be like. In the aftermath of 30 seconds on Monday, at least 55 people died. Local mountains may have risen more than a foot. Nine highways snapped like twigs. An oil main and 250 gas lines ruptured, igniting an untold number of fires. So many wires fell down and circuits blew that 3.1 million people were plunged into total darkness. Water was denied to 40,000. There were more than 1,000 aftershocks, some considerable tremors in their own right...
Around the same time, other researchers began examining maps drawn up by petroleum geologists. Thrust faults, and the folds they form, are excellent traps for gas and oil, and many such subterranean spots have been found in the Los Angeles region. But were these structures still active? In recent years, nature has provided an unequivocal answer. Since 1987, when the Whittier Narrows earthquake caused eight deaths and $350 million in property damage, about half a dozen quakes of significant size have rattled along thrust faults beneath greater Los Angeles. All this activity, many scientists speculate, may . be a symptom that...
...last 20 years, American foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...