Word: back-and-forth
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...tend to exert greater force horizontally than vertically, usually twice as much or more. What seems to have been unusual in the Northridge quake -- which seismologists now said may have struck with two successive pulses -- was a superior vertical force. This caused some buildings that would have survived back-and-forth swaying to be subverted at their foundations. Accordingly, experts are looking at futuristic designs that will allow buildings to adapt to such tremulous variations. Japan, for example, has equipped buildings with computer-controlled systems that dynamically compensate for quake-induced motion; if an earthquake tips a building forward, these...
This one-of-a-kind cover story is the brainchild of William McWhirter, TIME's chief Midwest business correspondent. McWhirter came up with the idea of a combined article on GM, Ford and Chrysler early this year, but it took months of back-and-forth negotiations before all three were persuaded to cooperate. Actually, he says, "once one agreed, the others not only followed suit but competed with each other for the kind of access we were given...
...devoted largely to foreign policy, are sketchy. But within 24 hours, Clinton suggested that Bush's conciliatory posture toward China might not have been as counterproductive as he had once believed. A Clinton official denied that any reversal had occurred a day later. But the President-elect's back-and-forth maneuver, also a common tactic of Bush's, led an outgoing White House official to remark, "It all sounds eerily familiar...
...first part of the second half saw more back-and-forth play as the Crimson became more aggressive offensively...
With three minutes left in the game, however, Harvard's victory was very much in doubt. The back-and-forth, furiously paced match was knotted at 9-9 following a strong second-half comeback by Brown...