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...recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
Fueled by the white-hot graphite core of one of Chernobyl's four reactors, the runaway blaze burned at temperatures of up to 5000 degrees , or twice that of molten steel. The crippled reactor itself was unapproachable--too hot from the fire ravaging it, too dangerous radioactively. "No one knows how to stop it," said one U.S. expert. "It could take weeks to burn itself...
...trouble began two weeks ago, when outspoken Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, a Likud member, blasted Peres in newspaper interviews. Moda'i, who holds degrees in engineering, economics and law, said Peres deserves no credit for bringing Israel's runaway inflation under control because the Prime Minister "knows nothing of economics and is by nature a man who gives in." Moda'i later called Peres "the flying Prime Minister" because of his many trips abroad, and accused Labor ministers of "cynical fraud" for bailing out businesses owned by Histadrut, the Israeli trade-union confederation...
...cost fuel, Europe is expected to show real growth of about 3.5% this year, its most vibrant performance in a decade. Several governments aim to use the opportunity to make fundamental improvements in their economies. Italy's Prime Minister, Bettino Craxi, for example, hopes to reduce the country's runaway budget deficit, which is expected to hit $50 billion this year...
...boyish-looking author also spoke about the difficulty of following up on a runaway success like Bright Lights. "If Bright Lights hadn't been so successful, my second book would probably have been very similar...