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...initial indication of such terrestrial turmoil came in 1975, when Mount Baker, a 10,750-ft. volcanic peak in northwestern Washington, began to puff and fume. Vented steam has continued to melt ice around the summit crater of the mountain, which is only 90 miles from Seattle. The Geological Survey says that rising magma in the mountain's cone may be stoking Mount Baker's internal fires. Magma is hot, melted rock from deep within the earth that fuels volcanoes and becomes visible as lava when it breaks through the crust...
...tensions notwithstanding, both sides, it seems, were in fact conducting talks behind closed doors to sound each other out. In February of this year Secretary of State George Shultz, in Peking, found that while the Chinese were posturing publicly about Taiwan, in private they were expending most of their steam over a U.S. promise, first proffered by Haig, to reclassify China's trade status. In May Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige informed the Chinese that Reagan had in fact reclassified China, putting it in the category of a "friendly country with which the U.S. is not allied...
Park of the explanation is the oversemitivity of the new detection, officials explained. Dust, steam, insets, and "other things" one set off an alarm, Breen said...
...expect to reach the 1275 level in the middle or the end of October." But some other seers were worried about large federal deficits and higher interest rates. Said David Jones, senior vice president of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "I think the market has run out of steam and won't do much better than 1250, at least by the end of the year...
...media straitjacket of language and sex. Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo. Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds...