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...fire has heated underground water, have continued to rise through vents in the surface; heat has continued to build. Tom Coddington found in 1979 that the temperature in the underground gasoline storage tanks at his Amoco station had risen to 172° F. He was forced to drain the tanks to avoid an explosion. A few months later Coddington, who lived with his family in an apartment above the station, was overcome by carbon monoxide and rushed to a nearby hospital. Since then he has moved his family to a trailer set up on the town's ball field...
...cities under the Reagan Administration will, he fears, jeopardize his plans to reduce crime, continue building and improve transportation-an eight-mile subway system will open next year. Baltimore's recent successes may even work against it. Says Schaefer: "Now, unless you scream about going down the drain, Washington assumes you're doing fine. We're doing fine, but we still need a lot of federal help...
Many banks, however, do not want outsiders in their markets. Says Charles N. Brewer, president of Dallas' Reunion Bank: "When the large East and West Coast banks get down here, they might drain off our resources to make their international loans...
...struggle to get the shuttle launched, NASA has already been forced to drain funds from other areas, especially those concerned with the unmanned exploration of the solar system. To NASA's great embarrassment, it has had to drop out of a joint effort to position two satellites-one American, the other European-in great, looping orbits around the poles of the sun. These solar regions have never before been inspected by technically equipped robots from earth, and such satellites could help answer important questions about the behavior of our parent star: How does it affect terrestrial climate and weather...
...encouraging to note that today's romp was over a greatly improved Bruin squad that already has more victories this year than last season's total. The easy match didn't drain any of the emotional energy that will have to be summoned for today's Yale match. In the words of Pompan. "Today was encouraging to watch. We're all building up for Yale. We're building intensity...