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...Domestic Council, was huddled with his staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Steaming cups of coffee were on the table to help jolt the men to full alert. The Alaska pipeline bill up before the Congress was the urgent subject -how to speed its passage, shear off extraneous amendments. There was optimism in the Roosevelt Room in that first light, the force of the President's energy statement still fresh...
...expansion of rock along a fault zone in the earth when stresses reach a critical point. This cracking creates many tiny cavities in the water-saturated rock. That slows the passage of P (pressure) waves, which travel faster through liquid-filled cracks. Another kind of seismic wave, the S (shear) wave, however, is less affected by the newly opened cracks; thus the usual ratio of P-to S-wave velocity drops sharply. Then, as ground water gradually seeps into the new cracks, the ratio returns to normal. But the water increases pressure within the rock, causing one wall...
That possibility is based upon studies of the two basic types of seismic waves that are given off by all earthquakes: 1) P (or pressure) waves, which alternately compress and expand the earth in the direction of their travel; and 2) S (or shear) waves, which cause motion of the earth in a direction perpendicular to their path. Because a quake's P waves travel through the earth slightly faster than its S waves, they arrive at seismic listening posts ahead of the S waves. While investigating the small tremors that often occur in the Garm region south...
...bandits to rights and, of course, start stumbling over and shooting each other in the process. If the film makers had cared to concentrate on the political or social implications of such a story, they could have produced a kind of Battle of Algiers in Harlem. Director Barry Shear (Wild in the Streets) concentrates mostly on a hoked-up conflict between a fading police captain (Anthony Quinn, also one of the film's producers) and his black successor (Yaphet Kotto). Anthony Franciosa impersonates a notably dumb and vicious Mafia muscle man, whose sole function is to torture various blacks...
...This set the stage for the freshman 155-pound trial bout between Peter Huntsmen and Jeff McKinnon. It was the only bout of the day, but what a bout it was. Artsy it wasn't, finesse and skill it lacked, but for shear brutality and action it could not be topped...