Word: seismic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleepy little community whose most notable claim to fame is its unusual name, a garbled version of its early designation as a railroad's "Coaling Station A." Last week Coalinga (pronounced Clinga) was jolted out of its torpor, adding a puzzling footnote to California's seismic history...
...prohibited by a previous treaty.) The 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNE) provides for the same explosive limits if nuclear blasting should ever be used in such enterprises as mining or canal digging. TTBT requires a U.S.-Soviet exchange of relevant data, which can then be checked against seismic sensor readings. PNE goes even further: U.S. negotiators persuaded the Soviets to allow U.S. inspectors to watch and measure any blasts. (Of course, the Soviets in turn could observe U.S. detonations...
...full commercial development after 18 years; reduce congressional control over the designation of wilderness areas; and grant oil and mining companies immediate access to wilderness areas to conduct potentially environment-disturbing probes. The environmentalists were especially exercised over a provision that would permit "sampling conducted by helicopter" and "seismic surveys." The proposal, concluded the Wilderness Society's Gordon Roberts, would allow "oil companies to use explosives in search of oil or gas resources, as long as they reach the site by helicopter...
...sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes." His own death in 1979 caused some seismic waves. At 70, he suffered a late-night heart attack while in the company of a young woman employee whom Joseph Persico describes as "a 20th century Rubens wearing aviator's glasses...
Trailing a Promethean plume of fire and smoke, the entire 18-story-high, 4.5 million-lb. package thundered off the pad, shaking the earth for miles around, a seismic jolt greater even than the tremors from the mighty Saturn rockets that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. From the hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Kennedy Space Center came encouraging shouts: "Go, man, go!" "Smooth sailing, baby!" "Fly like an eagle!" "Oh my god, what a show...