Word: subsoilers
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...owns the rich oil deposits that lie more than three miles off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard-the coastal states or the Federal Government? Last week the Supreme Court with Justice Douglas still absent ruled unanimously that the rights to the seabed and subsoil belong to the U.S. Despite the huge potential payoff involved, the Justices deliberated swiftly and reached their decision three weeks after oral argument...
...accusation is simplistic, if understandable from an Arab perspective. It ignores the general American support for Israel that is really the subsoil that enables the Jewish lobby to flourish. Non-Jewish Americans harbor profound sentiments toward Israel that have nothing to do with Jewish lobbying: a sense of something owed the Jewish people after the Nazi Holocaust; shared religious roots and democratic ideals; admiration for the pioneer spirit of the Israeli nation builders, so seemingly akin to America's own beginnings; empathy for the underdog diminished after the Israelis' victory in 1967. Besides there were the geopolitical, cold war realities...
...When you let a hundred flowers bloom, you may have to cut the tops off a few. This improves subsoil conditions and fosters genuine self-criticism and photosynthesis...
...often suggested to meet these requirements is to freeze the soft soil under the foundation. But engineers point out that such a move might only shift the load to lower levels of subsoil that are even softer and more likely to give way. Others, unaware of Mussolini's unsuccessful attempt, suggest injecting concrete or plastics into the ground. Then there is what seems to be the more practical plan of M.I.T. Aerospace Engineer Yao Tzi Li, who proposed ringing the tower's base with buried concrete pads. Connected to the tower by a network of trusses, the pads...
...third highrise will loom on Boylston St., midway between the Kennedy Center and the center of the Square. Soil engineers, contracted by Cambridge landlord Max Wasserman, are testing the peat and clay subsoil to determine what size structure the ground can economically support. The land is zoned for both office space and housing; given the relative surplus of office space in the Boston area, the choice will probably be housing...