Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to British intelligence, the supreme leader of the Proves is Belfast-born Gerry Adams, 31, a sometime student and bartender who has spent 4% of the past nine years in prison without being convicted of a serious crime. In the past three years, the British say, Adams has honed the Proves into a deadly terrorist force. Despite their small numbers -there are only 600 to 700 gunmen, organized into cells of four to six men each -they manage to tie down 30,000 troops and police. A top British officer in Ulster says flatly: "Gerry Adams runs the I.R.A...
...problem in the past, says Johnson, is that when executives are responsible for coping with the grief of employees, they become so involved and work so hard that they develop the same symptoms as the grief victims themselves...
Along a large crack, corresponding layers of rock were offset vertically-in some places by as much as 1,000 meters (3,300 ft.). In other words, a break had occurred and some of the rock sank. Apparently, at some time in the remote past, the rock had been uplifted-perhaps by volcanism...
...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 into southern Illinois. In all, the scientists count about half a dozen associated faults, although their data are still sketchy. Says St. Louis University Geophysicist Sean-Thomas Morrissey: "You can't go out and stick your finger in the fault like in California...
...Cuckoo's Nest. Says Yudofsky, "The only way you physically know a seizure is taking place is that sometimes you see a finger wiggling slightly." The patient is injected with a short-acting anesthetic, then a muscle relaxant to prevent the sudden muscular contractions that in the past occasionally caused fractured bones or chipped teeth. An electrocardiogram is sometimes used to monitor the heart rhythm and oxygen is administered to prevent possible brain damage after the shock...