Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRYING to fully understand recent history is like trying to size up a building with your nose pressed to it. It's a fruitless task. And yet recently, quite a few influential people have being trying. Sniffing away at this month's "Panama debacle," they have arrived at premature judgments of American involvement, or lack thereof...
...said that as the Soviet Union tried to move forward on arms treaties based on the pact "there stood the station, the size of an Egyptian pyramid, representing, to put it bluntly, a violation of the ABM treaty...
...practical, stylish and feminine. Among her trademarks: one-piece silk bodysuits, easy-fitting jackets, wrap skirts. Fashion doyen John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily, lauds Karan as the most important American designer. Says he: "Donna understands a woman's body the way Coco Chanel did." A size 12 herself, Karan boasts the rare and eternally marketable talent of cutting a skirt or a pair of pants so that they flatter a woman's hips even if she is not runway-thin...
There is no doubt that hidden faults generate earthquakes. What remains controversial is how large such quakes might be. For the residents of Los Angeles, this is no academic argument. A quake under the center of the city would do far more damage than a tremor of the same size on the San Andreas Fault. Until more is known about the destructive potential of hidden faults, the people living over them will have to remain constantly alert...
Range after rocky range, the mountains of northern Nevada soar above the arid flats. From the air their sagebrush cloaks seem as soft as crumpled velvet. Suddenly a series of gigantic holes looms below, so huge that if they were the size of anthills, the ore trucks and bulldozers scurrying over them would be the smallest of ants. "Some people see these holes and think they're hideous," muses John Livermore, a tall, lanky exploration geologist from Reno. "Others think how wonderful it is that man can do something...