Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The seaside resort city of Santa Cruz, only nine miles from the quake's epicenter deep under a hill called Loma Prieta, took a heavy hit. Much of a six-block stretch along Front Street and Pacific Avenue was reduced to rubble. A year later, 50-year-old masonry storefronts...
But as the doors of the hospitals were swinging open, the fiscal gates were clanging shut. Few halfway houses were ever established, and many community centers shifted their focus to family counseling and treating drug abuse and alcoholism. Programs also came under attack from budget cutters. California's services, once...
A few days later, a French archaeologist guides Auel through Laugerie Haute, a vast excavation site under a cliff. She asks for details about how hearths were spaced, seeking hints on how families may have guarded their privacy. "This will be Jondalar's apartment building," she says. At Font-de...
As Congress squabbled in search of a budget, Bush during three dizzying days switched his position at least four times on the key question of what additional taxes the most affluent citizens should pay to help reduce the budget deficit. On Tuesday morning he declared that he might accept raising...
Thus ended the low profile Israel had maintained in the gulf crisis at the request of the Bush Administration, which had persuaded Jerusalem that its silence was essential to keeping most of the Arab world united against Saddam. The tragedy on the Temple Mount, one of the most sacred sites...