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...deaths and 10,000 injuries a year. Insurance companies estimate that in 1976 arson cost $2 billion in claims. As a result, fire insurance premiums have risen sharply in the past five years. Adding other, related costs such as business failures, loss of jobs and tenant relocation, Walter D. Swift, vice president of the American Insurance Association estimates last year's total arson price tag in the U.S. to be between $10 billion and $15 billion...
...swift pace inspired the top eight runners to finish better than the old course record of 17:39. Johanna Foreman, the other fleet-footed freshman besides the winner, steamed from sixth to second place in the final mile, crossing at 17:02, to ice the victory for Harvard...
White House spokesmen later conceded that they expected no swift Soviet response to Carter's statement. His objective, they let it be known, was simply to get on the U.N. record a position that his Administration has always espoused: its eagerness to eliminate the means to wage nuclear war. Carter's audience applauded only once, when he reaffirmed that the U.S. "will not use nuclear weapons except in self-defense." The next day, Carter returned to the U.N. to join Ambassador Andrew Young in signing two international human-rights covenants, one covering civil and political rights, the other...
Brown fired. The ball soared by Sigillito, who was also hanging out in the middle, and met Hobdy in mid-stride. The swift senior, a starter a year ago, Jim Curry's back-up this go-around, then made the most of his opportunity and outsprinted the world into the Dartmouth endzone...
Stormin' Norman and Suzy--Jonathan Swift...