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...were on the low-ceilinged second level, where there were no windows or exits, stampeded toward two narrow stairways. The main door on the ground floor was blocked by flames. The only window was barred. Feliciano, the target of Gonzalez's rage, and four others ran to a seldom-used second door, where they forced open a gate to become the only known survivors...
Japan: land of the rising yen, unstoppable economic growth and perpetual bullishness. That was the image that emerged in the 1980s, as Japan's financial juggernaut rolled forward with seldom a pause or a setback. The most striking symbol was Tokyo's stock market, which consistently scaled heights that seemed unattainable by any global standard. Property values rose astronomically, yet inflation was virtually nonexistent. The money machine kept churning, as if powered by some magic force, difficult to fathom and nearly invulnerable to financial stresses and strains in the rest of the world...
...investigation into the policies of the Ad Board was also launched because of the concern that students, left in the dark about the College's secretive disciplinary procedures, seldom have had the opportunity to examine these policies critically...
...rhetorically effective, but it appeared to beg the issue. Granted that a politician's duty is to pursue, conscientiously, the public interest without fear or favor. But why should not the church play a role in forming and guiding the conscience of its adherents? For example, non- Catholics have seldom complained when bishops took politically progressive stands, like excommunicating Dixie satraps who fostered racial discrimination...
Food privileges elicit the deepest anger. Although there are plenty of potatoes and kasha, a kind of porridge, ordinary Soviets must wait in long lines, sometimes for hours, to purchase such "luxuries" as soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies...