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...Dupont Plaza had no sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...
Critics of the test note that the magazine quaffed the fresh-tasting stuff from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt rather than the sometimes foul-smelling brew from the groundwater basins of the San Fernando Valley. While the report has gratified local officials, it has perturbed others. Says Sy Linden, co-owner of a Santa Monica appliance store: "This story is killing my water-purifier business...
...convinced the others to let us off first at Teheran; but, after Rutger began extolling the virtues of one particularly fine American institution located in the desert outside Reno, our companions demanded a time-consuming detour to Nevada...
Paul Laxalt. His luster was dimmed by the loss of his handpicked successor in the Nevada Senate race. Even worse, he put his prestige and the President's on the line after ignoring party entreaties not to give up the seat...
...biggest story was Reagan's gigantic "prevent defense," orchestrated largely to protect first-term Senators who were dragged in by his coattails in 1980. Unfortunately for Reagan, the five candidates he campaigned hardest for--those in California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, and South Dakota--all lost...