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...around the Big Apple loves to hate, it supplies more than just gas, steam and the costliest electricity in the country. Con Ed's softspoken, Wisconsin-bred chairman, Charles Luce, 60, himself says that the big firm also provides ''a tremendous catharsis for the pent-up tensions of the city. If we didn't have a Con Ed, we'd have to invent...
Land Rush. These are but a few examples of the house-buying frenzy that is sweeping Southern California. Largely because of the region's improving economy and expanding population, the long pent-up demand for the limited available housing has resulted in scenes reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush. The surge in sales is causing a boom in construction, attracting speculators, and hiking prices to levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace...
...growing cities now provide the anonymity so useful to criminals. Raging inflation has widened the gap between rich and poor, leaving some Israelis ready to steal their share of the new affluence. Worse, more and more citizens, long schooled in aggressive defense against external enemies, are turning pent-up energies against their fellows. Since 1971 crime in the small country (pop. 4.5 million) has gone up 21.7%. Robbery is up 50%, juvenile delinquency 12%. When Israeli cops are not rounding up petty rip-off artists, drug pushers and hookers, they work on their country's trickiest police problem: beating...
...mantle and propelled by as yet undetermined forces, the plates are in constant motion. Where they meet, friction sometimes temporarily locks them in place, causing stresses to build up near their edges. Eventually the rock fractures, allowing the plates to resume their motion. It is that sudden release of pent-up energy that causes earthquakes. Off Japan, for instance, the Pacific plate is thrusting under the Eurasian plate, causing the deep-seated quakes characteristic of the Japanese archipelago. In California, along the San Andreas Fault, two great plates are sliding past each other. The sliver west of the fault, which...
Results of the courses can be traumatic, especially at home. As they gain new assertiveness, some women vent their pent-up anger on their husbands or boy friends. In a few cases, such emotions have triggered divorces. Psychologist Lange, for one, warns women of the hazards at the start of his course, and will even talk with husbands if trouble develops. "Sudden changes in behavior," he warns, "can be dangerous...