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...tragedy was made worse by the fact that flames were able to destroy the alarm's control system before it could go into action. In addition, open stair wells funneled the smoke upward like chimneys. Nevada Governor Robert List called the hotel "a burned-out devastation. It turns your stomach." And he added: "The repercussions from this fire will be long-lasting...
...Upward pressure on prices remains powerful. Food costs are projected to leap by at least 12% in the year ahead, with rises of up to 18% in meat and poultry, and energy costs are about to start spurting upward again too. Though oil consumption in the industrial world is down 8% from last year's levels, and inventories are full, the ten-week-old Iran-Iraq war has cut out 9% of the non-Communist world's crude production, resulting in a tightening market that is rapidly forcing up prices. Quotes for the small amounts of crude that...
...robot's probing electronic eyes that they could capture only small swatches of the planet's stormy atmosphere. The spacecraft executed its maneuvers with astonishing precision - near the climax of its long journey it was only 19 km (12 miles) off course. Finally, Voyager climbed upward, once again crossing just outside Saturn's rings. Casting backward glances with its cameras and instruments, it soared above the ecliptic - the plane formed by the paths of planets orbiting the sun - and headed out of the solar system to wander aimlessly among the stars...
...blue-chip stocks up by 49 points, to 986.35; that was a half point below the previous high reached on Jan. 10, 1977-just ten days before Jimmy Carter moved into the White House. At week's end some brokers were speculating that the market had enough upward momentum to propel the Dow through the magic 1,000 level-which it last hit in 1973-by the time Reagan takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...summons into the theater the images in Stoppard's oration. The transition from Bernard's somnolent maunderings to Arthur's vigorous gesticulating ought to develop more gradually, however; by jumping head-first into his monologue, Mann loses an opportunity to scale the intensity of his speech in an upward arc, making this vastness of exposition more listenable...