Word: seismicity
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...industry convulsions could be seismic. Watch the Hollywood earth tremble! CAA clients like Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise feel orphaned, while rival agencies go all adrool, dreaming of talent raids. Or, as David Letterman--whom Ovitz sold to CBS as the $42 million late-night man--says, "Oh, my God, it's the end of show business!" He's probably joking...
...moment, most ordinary blacks seem content to wait, to simply appreciate a government that after all these years represents them. They do not expect BMWs in the driveways tomorrow. But they will not wait forever. Houses must be built. Jobs must be created. Land-the seismic fault running through South African history-must be redistributed. If black discontent rises, there is little doubt that the middle-of-the-road government will swerve to the left, not the right...
...older buildings suffered serious damage. The government has promised tougher standards for new buildings, but the immediate challenge is how to improve existing structures. Says Charles Scawthorn, vice president of EQE International, a San Francisco firm that specializes in quake-resistant engineering: ``This is the real heart of the seismic-hazard problem...
Politicians, pundits and activists say the demise of rent control--for a quarter century the single issue able to make or break a politician in this city of Democrats--initiated a seismic shift that could alter the face of city politics for decades to come...
...between eruptions along the big faults are measured in centuries, whereas the secondary cracks ``may only slip in a big earthquake every 1,000 to 5,000 years,'' notes seismologist Wayne Thatcher of the U.S. Geological Survey. ``Yet there are so damn many of them that they pose a seismic hazard equivalent to the Big One we've all been so focused on.'' Seismologists also point out that quakes could endanger places where citizens have rarely thought about them: Seattle, for instance, which sits close to a fault under the Pacific that seismologists now conclude has triggered major quakes...