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...Using steam to create the mist during winter, the fountain will function year round, Oommen said, adding, "there will be a rainbow as long as there is sunlight...
...word of the bloody takeover reached Washington, a naval task force that had been headed for Lebanon with 1,900 Marines aboard was ordered to change course and steam toward Grenada. Its new mission, said Pentagon officials, was to offer protection if necessary for the 1,000 Americans on the island, the majority of them students at the St. George's University School of Medicine. The situation, declared White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, "has raised our concerns to the highest level." Equally perturbed were the governments of the dozen Caribbean island nations that share Grenada's British heritage...
...struggle is all the more intense because retailers expect 1983's fall and Christmas selling seasons to bring to a rousing conclusion the best year they have had since 1979. The recovery is continuing to steam along. Last week the Commerce Department reported that the gross national product grew at a healthy annual rate of 7.9% from July through September, down just a bit from the 9.7% pace during the second quarter. Consumer spending jumped 1.5% in September, fueled by a .9% increase in personal income. Says Marshall Field Chairman Philip Miller: "A lot of pent-up buying...
...club also could not sell a sizeable number of costumes damaged by steam from a heat malfunction, Johnson said...
...monochrome. To the Motorcycle Boy, colorblind and partly deaf from too many fights, the world is "black and white with the sound turned low," and what he sees is what we get. Dark clouds hurtle across the sky; diagonal strips of shadow fall like knife scars on every face; steam rises from the streets and rolls off the most innocuous front porch. Clocks, with or without hands, are everywhere, reminding the Motorcycle Boy of his mortality; and the sound track has the ominous rhythm of a heartbeat, a time bomb...