Word: withstand
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...Washington today are preoccupied with their recent ascent to power, and are now happily meeting, planning and networking to parley that power toward a common agenda in the next two years and to a presidency beyond that. The question now is how long can the Democrats, namely Clinton, withstand the Republican onslaught before we begin to see cracks in his resolve, as well as his own values? Can he stand firm...
Designing or, worse, retrofitting buildings to withstand the tremors is extremely expensive. Nonetheless, recent efforts have been in some ways a heartening success--and in other ways a shocking failure...
Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...
...year later, hidden damage is turning up in many steel-frame buildings that appeared to withstand the Northridge quake. Of 300 buildings inspected, reports Karl Deppe, an assistant chief with the Los Angeles department of building and planning, 100 sustained dangerous cracks, mostly in the welds at building joints, and the other 200 are ``suspicious.'' Many are office buildings in which people are still working, blissfully unaware of any damage. ``Repair has to be done,'' says Deppe. But the potential cost is enormous: anywhere from $750,000 to $2.4 million just to inspect the 500 to 600 joints...
...evidenced by the recommendation of the committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53. This committee, which was formed by President Rudenstine to study the ROTC issue, had recommended that the University sever all ties with ROTC. Rudenstine fortunately disagreed, but who knows how long he can withstand the political pressure to completely eliminate ROTC...