Word: resorted
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...last resort, Davis said HASCS can have the ethernet jack electronically disconnected...
...when a prolonged heightening of sea-surface temperatures, triggered by the 1997-1998 El Niņo, ripped through the Indian Ocean like a forest fire. In some areas, coral mortality approached 70%. The reefs are recovering, says Abdul Azeez Abdul Hakeem, director of conservation for the Banyan Tree resort, but no one knows what will happen to them as the world's oceans continue to warm...
...unions, led by the Air Line Pilots Association, were vehemently opposed to a Lorenzo takeover. They feared that he would once again resort to a tactic he had used after Texas Air won a battle for control of Continental Airlines. In 1983 Lorenzo took Continental into bankruptcy proceedings, which enabled the company to void union contracts and slash employee salaries. That maneuver earned Lorenzo a reputation as a union buster...
...radicalization of the people. You may have a civil war comparable to what happened in Nicaragua, where the moderates became irrelevant, participation in the electoral process became impossible, and the left exploited the situation ... I think the violation of the sanctity of the ballot would be sufficient justification for resort to arms...
...Fire, a broad circle that more or less coincides with the boundaries of the Pacific, where oceanic plates are diving under continental plates. Of particular concern to scientists are some of the peaks in the Cascades, the mountain range that includes Mount St. Helens. The Mammoth Lakes ski-resort area in California is another area of potential volcanic activity...