Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weariness?and much more?accounts for the profound hibernation of the radical movement in the U.S. The students who closed down scores of campuses after Kent State and the Cambodian invasion last spring scarcely stirred at the current South Vietnamese expedition into Laos. Only last summer dynamite seemed the shock wave of the future...
...telling pollsters that the state of the economy is their biggest concern. Unemployment has been lower than during any previous recession; yet three out of four Americans expect rising unemployment and economic difficulties this year. "The notion that things will be better tomorrow has received quite a shock," says Economist George Katona...
Lucky Timing. It was not even the ultimate earthquake that scientists have long predicted for California (see SCIENCE). But it registered 6.5 on the Richter Scale (highest ever recorded: 8.9), making it the most severe shock to strike the quake-prone area in nearly 40 years. Felt over 30,000 square miles from Fresno south to San Diego and east to Las Vegas, the earthquake caused at least $350 million worth of property damage. It killed 62 persons, the greatest number of U.S. earthquake casualties since Long Beach suffered 120 deaths in 1933. Only the fortunate timing prevented a fatality...
...upheaval might be imminent. At least 60,000 valley residents whose homes lie below Van Norman Reservoir were ordered to stay away from their neighborhoods. Much of the restraining clam's concrete facing had slipped beneath the water, and its earthen backing had developed fissures. With each new shock-one reached a magnitude of 5.7-residents feared that 6 billion gallons of water might burst into the valley. The slow task of emptying the 100-ft.-deep reservoir into the normally dry Los Angeles River began so that the dam could be repaired and the lakes refilled-a task...
Jolting as it was for Californians, last week's earthquake was even more of a shock to scientists. In a typical year, the Golden State is the site of 300 noticeable quakes, and seismologists have long predicted that a major quake is overdue. Yet the San Fernando quake struck an area that has been seismically inactive at least since the end of the last Ice Age-about 10,000 years ago. The region was still trembling when scores of scientists arrived with their portable instruments, anxious to find out why they had been caught so completely by surprise...