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...journey came to a halt when a mudslide trapped the bus he was traveling in and killed eight people in the bus traveling just a few miles ahead of them. The groups spent 36 hours excavating the bus and then carried the bodies back. But after arriving in his room, Adams was prevented from sleeping by an earthquake. "I had never been in an earthquake before," he says. In yet another adventure with nature. Adams was trapped in a small village for two weeks by a mudslide that cut him off from the only road in and out of town...
Some 13 years later, with student riots the thing of nostalgia pieces, and hardly the overbearing threat that could effectively halt classes and occupy University Hall, Harvard's Messiah seems remarkable mortal--mortal enough to fuel occasional speculation over his successor...
...looked like it was under siege as 6,000 army troops in full battle dress manned positions at key intersections in and around the city and guarded the airport and harbor. In the worst riot areas, a nighttime curfew was in effect, but it had come too late to halt the violence by roving bands of rioters, who had killed and maimed and burned. Hardest hit were the industrial towns of Bhiwandi, Thane and Kalyan, northeast of Bombay, where thousands of huts belonging to low-income workers lay in ashes. The government hastily set up temporary camps for the homeless...
...both Freeman and Medoff say they realize that it will take more than one book to halt the decay of unions taking place nationwide. Including decline in membership, management's hostility, and non-enforcement of labor laws by the government. In 1954, a peak year, 34 percent of the non-agricultural work force belonged to unions while today that number stands at 18 percent From automobiles to airlines, management is demanding wage concessions from unions and in some sectors even seeking their demise. In their book Freeman and Medoff urge government to enforce right-to-organize laws and halt...
...Hosgri fault line. Their findings prompted an overhaul of its structural design. In 1976 P G & E had to replace miles of copper tubing when scientists found that sea life near the plant had been killed by toxic runoff from its piping. Then in 1981 construction came to a halt because some blueprints were discovered to have been reversed...