Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Federal Emergency Management Agency, can suggest guidelines but cannot enforce them. As a result, fire codes vary greatly from place to place. In New York City, for example, hotels are required to have a system of water pumps and hoses, sprinklers on floors below ground level, an alarm system and a watchman on duty 24 hours a day. Even though many New York hotels were built before World War II and thus have thick walls, windows that open and other safety features, Assistant Fire Chief John Fogarty is worried. "We have at least one hotel fire a day," he says...
...Kagemusha is intimate--the scope of the movie does not become apparent until the last half hour. Before that it proceeds matter-of-factly, with a subtle but pervasive irony, the compositions not only beautiful and delicate, but brimming with thematic imagery. The film is accessible on cvery level; it is absorbing and then funny, charming and then ghastly...
While U.S. officials have hinted at Soviet attempts to stir ethnic unrest in Iran, Sullivan's statement is believed to be one of the highest-level confirmations of such charges...
William D. Carmichael, a council member and head of the office for Middle East and Africa in the Ford Foundation, said yesterday, "No matter what future one foresees in South Africa, there is a very pressing need for more Blacks with high level training in order for them to assume leadership roles in their society...
Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...