Word: richter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into operation; the other will be finished in August 1977. When construction started in 1968, PG&E knew all about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete, liberally laced with steel reinforcing rods...
...McGuffey's Readers were launched, and where Red Blaik and Ara Parseghian got their starts in football. After last week it may also be remembered as the site of the U.S. debut of the latest in a long line of Russian pianists that includes Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Lazar Berman, 45, is unknown in the U.S. and Western Europe. But collectors of Soviet recordings, as well as many pianists throughout the world, have for years praised his talent...
Although Berman has not played enough for fair comparison with Gilels and Richter, one wonders if either could present a better recital...
...than a remote possibility. Basically, the effects of a New York City bankruptcy are immeasurable, since the situation would be unprecedented. But many economists believe the risk is too great to be worth taking. Says Heller: "No one knows how to judge a New York City default on a Richter scale of financial earthquakes, but we should try to handle it without testing the repercussions...
YALE-BROWN--This rates as an 11, and there may be some readings on the Richter scale before it's over. It won't surprise me if either team wins, which is why it doesn't surprise me that I can't pick this one. Because it's in Providence, I'll give the edge, grudgingly, to the Bruins. Brown 27, Yale...