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Some downtown high-rise buildings had sunk into the ground, and shards of glass were hanging from office buildings. Streets were strewn with downed power lines and broken glass...
They said Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn, Handlin and Trumbell Professor of American History Donald Fleming were among those who sunk the 33-year-old scholar's tenure chances with letters and comments to Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...
Some 270 wells are being sunk in the Tazerbo and Sarir areas, more than 300 miles south of Benghazi. Plans call for additional wells to be drilled south of Tripoli and for more then half of Libya's 1,100-mile coastline to be linked by the pipeline. Later, irrigation schemes, food-processing plants and factories are to be added...
...market had hit a new Dow peak of 1919.71. But that made stocks increasingly vulnerable to a long- dreaded deep "correction." Once the slide started last Thursday, it picked up incredible speed because of so-called program trading -- computer- triggered waves of selling. By 11 a.m., the Dow had sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat...
...Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...