Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenant representative did not really affect the rent control board because the members do not neccesarily vote according to their constituencies. Ellen Semonoff, the board's chair, is neither a tenant nor a landlord and thus has no constituency, Healy said. "She will protect the interests of the right side of the issues...
...surprising. They think that a true stereophile should have the latest, cleanest musical mechanisms. But, as Joan Jett once said, I love rock'n roll, not its machinery. And defects and all, I like everything about L.P.'s. Everything. Scratches, warps, pressing the repeat button and playing the same side of an album all night. Everything...
During the 1906 tremor, the plates on either side of the San Andreas lurched past each other by as much as 20 ft. Over time, such jumps add up. "In 30 million years," Berkeley seismologist Bruce Bolt says, "Los Angeles will become a new suburb of San Francisco...
Those precautions saved hundreds of lives. In San Francisco modern office high-rises, many standing on huge steel-and-rubber springs deep below their foundations, rode out the bucking movement, bouncing and swaying as much as 30 ft. from side to side without cracking open. Within minutes after the quaking subsided, emergency response teams, honed by hundreds of hours of drills, began rescuing victims, sealing off dangerously weakened structures and coordinating relief efforts...
Nonetheless, Britain refused to reduce its 2,500-man garrison in the Falklands. And the best either side could do on the sovereignty issue was to agree not to tackle the problem just yet. But the omens are good for their next meeting, at which they expect to renew diplomatic ties: they will reconvene on Valentine...