Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Progress has been made in designing earthquake-resistant--but not earthquake-proof--buildings. U.S. building codes are written to save lives, not prevent all damage. Modern structures are designed to sway and maybe even crack in a quake, but not to break apart and crush their inhabitants under falling debris. Says Bill Iwan, director of the earthquake engineering research laboratory at Caltech: ``With buildings, if you walk out after a quake, the designers did their...
...unreformed communists and neofascists in Russia, President Boris + Yeltsin is a "drunken swine" who should be tested for dipsomania. That sneering dismissal is too crude for the more mainstream politicians. They argue instead that he is isolated in the Kremlin, is badly misinformed and is falling under the sway of a "war party" of military and security officials. Other critics go further, speculating that Yeltsin is scheming to declare a state of emergency, cancel the 1996 presidential elections and rule by decree...
...appears that the absence of the 19 ballots is not enough to sway the results of the recount. But Neighbor said the board cannot certify the results until they account for the discrepancy...
...Golden Knight's win was enough to sway the voters, who jumped Clarkson up to No. 9 in the country, their first appearance in the poll this year...
Supporters of the protest said they do not expect to sway Boutros-Ghali's opinions on Bosnia but hope that community awareness of the problem will increase...