Word: rift
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Andrew Lawson of the University of California, Berkeley, raced into the field, making observations that established the existence of a fault line that parallels the California coast for more than 700 miles. They named the fault the San Andreas, after a jewel-like lake that lay within the rift zone less than 10 miles south of what was then America's largest and richest Western city...
...Healing the Moscow-Beijing Rift...
...much too fast, which simply couldn't happen." He predicts that "the Rada will end up split the same way as society." Those fault lines deepened last autumn, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, one-time comrades-in-arms who spearheaded the orange revolution, traded accusations of betraying the cause. Their rift will now play out at the ballot box. "It's like choosing between mother and father when the family breaks up," says record-label boss Doroshchuk. As often happens in divorce cases, a third party may benefit. A pr activist says, baldly: "We're preparing to grab the rewards...
...situation at Case had been brewing for many, many months,” says Professor Charles Rosenblatt. “The no- confidence movement at Case would have proceeded even if nothing of significance was happening at Harvard.” Even if Case’s faculty-president rift is just a coincidence, a few professors weighed in on their confidence—or lack thereof—in our prez, Lawrence H. Summers. “I think he’s clearly a brilliant man, very outspoken,” says Krauss. But his up-front management...
Even after that vote, Summers hoped he could heal the rift between himself and his Faculty critics, the president said yesterday...