Word: seismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paris has always looked a bit like an oil derrick. Now a consortium of French energy companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...
...paying off. In the past few months the company has signed deals with four computer manufacturers to repackage the $122,000 Pixar machine for sale in a variety of markets: to doctors for reading CAT scans, to engineers for computer-aided design, to oil companies for analyzing seismic soundings, to defense contractors for interpreting data beamed from orbiting spy satellites. Pixar officials estimate that eventually more than 90% of the company's business will come from outside the entertainment industry...
...those optimistic signs, many of the major economies are showing unmistakable signs of stress and strain. The drop in oil prices in the U.S. has stunned energy-producing regions and hurt a wide range of industries, from real estate to banking. Last week alone brought several seismic shocks: the bankruptcy filing by LTV, a major steel producer; the failure of First National Bank of Oklahoma City, a large oil-patch bank; and the $640 million loss reported by BankAmerica, which is saddled with numerous bad energy loans (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The dislocations caused by plunging oil prices have become...
What must have started as an appeal to street-wise pacifists, SOMBJAF thrives as hipper-than-thou funkadelia and constitutes the wittiest attack on U.S. arms policy since Tom Lehrer. A solid achievement when you recall that, at high voltages, Clinton has been known to inflict minor seismic damage. An amazing achievement considering how top-heavy the record might have sounded due to its immense cast of extras--30 background singers, 10 keyboard players and an array of drum-related, beat-box soloists...
...than the month or day. But by closely monitoring quake zones, they hope to find subtle clues that will lead to more precise and reliable forecasts. Keiiti Aki, a geophysicist at the University of Southern California, has designed a detailed computer model that combines such varied earthquake signposts as seismic anomalies, strange animal behavior, changes in the water table and peculiar bulges along the terrain...