Word: rivet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he thought the "likeliest explanation" for the damage was stress failure, perhaps compounded by maintenance problems. The ripping away of the fuselage skin appeared to have occurred along rivet lines, he said...
Unfortunately, the scandal failed to rivet Harvard's attention to the role of the CIA on campus for more than a passing moment. What is wrong with the Harvard community that it can let such a seminal academic issue pass without comment, much less examination? President Bok, who was so concerned with academic freedom last semester, did not issue any public statement on the CIA-training program...
...power outage hit several Rivet Houses and other Harvard buildings at around 11:50 last night. The problem was apparently linked to yesterday's heavy rains, a Cambridge Electric and Light Co, official said...
...This new record is heady evidence that the band has flourished during a career that began before the Sex Pistols and has survived what seems to be virtually mandatory punk burnout. They are as hot as ever, though, and still laying into those guitar chords like hardhats working rivet guns. They get occasional instrumental help-Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads turns a fine hand to synthesizers on one of the album's best cuts, Chasing the Night-but their songs are as funny and full of 360-degree mockery as ever. Endless Vacation, which sounds like a sort...
...guides McPhee through gaps, folds and sediment from Brooklyn to the dunes of northern Indiana. Harris reads old rock, both high and low, and she is not convinced that plate tectonics adequately explains a great deal of "suspect terrain." The whys and wheres of her disclaimers may not rivet the attention of readers whose geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes the hard evidence of a canyon wall or handful...