Word: tsunamis
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...fiscal landscape more hostile than any they had faced in the previous quarter-century. Although I did not know it at the time, in my freshman year, 1972, Penn was emerging from a fiscal crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain because the salaries were largely covered...
...polling then showed you as a middle-of-the-road Democrat. Now you have to get back to the center." He wasn't saying anything the President didn't know. Since November, Morris had been whispering in Clinton's ear about "riding the wave" of the G.O.P. tsunami. Clinton started paddling that way with his middle-class Bill of Rights speech...
...satellite captures a powerful, poetic portrait of Hurricane Fran It's one of nature's dark ironies that the most horrific expressions of its power are also the most beautiful. Think Mount St. Helens or a Pacific tsunami. Add to these Hurricane Fran, pinwheeling toward the U.S. last Wednesday...
...steamy romance novel, these slightly titillating words would cause scarcely a ripple. But in West Virginia last week, they and other passages in a newly published book created a political tsunami. For "Gaston" is Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton; and the object of his beneficence was his wife Rachael Worby, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, leader of Carnegie Hall's young people's concerts and, beyond any doubt, the most controversial first lady in the state's history...
...location nightmare of Universal Pictures' adventure movie has been assiduously chronicled: how the Waterworld shoot in Hawaii was threatened by crew injuries and tsunami warnings; how a huge set sank toward the end of shooting; how the budget ballooned from $100 million to what now may be twice that; how the star, Kevin Costner, and the director, Kevin Reynolds, fought over various aspects of the film until Reynolds stormed out during the editing. Things can go wrong in movies; it's part of the gamble. On Waterworld, everything went wrong...