Word: strikingly
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...anything positive can be said about the strongest earthquake to hit California in 40 years, it's that it chose a relatively good place and time to strike. Sunday's powerful early-morning jolt -- 7.4 on the Richter scale in contrast to 7.1 for the 1989 San Francisco Bay area quake -- shook people from their beds and houses from their foundations and was felt as far away as Colorado and Washington. But it was centered in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles. A second quake, with a Richter rating of 6.5, struck an even...
While neither of the Sunday quakes hit along the San Andreas Fault, where experts believe the Big One will eventually strike, both were on faults that intersect it. That could put more pressure on the San Andreas and hasten the arrival of a mega-quake -- a devastating prospect, since the San Andreas runs through the populous Los Angeles basin...
...Vacie are all too present. In Seville, a conservative coalition threw the Expo-promoting Socialists out of city hall last spring. "The state wastes money building pharaonic bridges and highways," says new Mayor Alejandro Rojas Marcos. "But it neglects schools, drug problems and employment." In recent months wildcat strikes shut down Asturias coal mines; an eight-week bus-driver walkout crippled Madrid; Basque steel workers fired homemade rockets at police, and La Mancha farmers blocked the roads with tractors. On May 28, a third of the country's workers joined in a general strike, bringing to 50 million the number...
Steeling itself for further unrest, the government is preparing a new law restricting the right to strike. Similarly, dissent in a flamboyantly free press may be dampened by proposed criminal penalties for libel. "Gonzalez is following in the old regime's authoritarian tradition," charges editor Ramirez, whose paper has aggressively investigated corruption. The government has also taken heat for a new law that allows detention of anyone failing to carry identity papers and permits the search of private homes without warrants in cases of suspected drug dealing...
...Weather vane" commercials, attacking an opponent's flip-flops, are a decades-old staple. Goldwater had changed his mind on a range of issues; Nixon said the same of George McGovern in 1972; and everyone this year will strike at his opponents' waverings -- and probably over the same issue, taxes, where all three have bobbed and weaved at one time or another...