He apparently was the lone shooter who perpetrated the attack with two handguns, one semi-automatic that resulted in a high rate of fire into a medical dental waiting room.
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"Kids coming in here with their parents can name every gun, because they use them in the video games they can tell you the rate of fire, what era it is from, " Conn says.
Its rate of fatality by fire is ten times that of the United States, and it is the most dangerous place in the world to drive a car or get on a plane.
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And, as a newspaperman, it's especially reassuring to know that the Chicago Tribune -- and specifically its editorial page -- is doing such a first-rate job of holding Blagojevich's feet to the fire that the governor allegedly tried to squash the Fourth Estate.
This model is unique, says Dr Reisner, in its ability to predict from first principles the rate at which a fire spreads, rather than relying on empirical rules of thumb devised from observation.
Meanwhile President Hollande won election on a platform that made no concessions to the deep structural challenges facing the French economy, promising to lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers, introduce a new top rate of tax of 75% for the highest earners and make it even harder to fire workers.
T-bills yield a negative real rate of return now and 10-year Treasuries yielding 4% don't light my fire.
Hedge funds have come under heavy fire since George Soros forced sterling out of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in 1992.
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The fire and rescue service insisted the increase, more than three times the rate of inflation, was needed to support services.
Enforcement of fire-safety rules in Russia is lax, contributing to a death rate from fires that is far higher than in many Western countries.
At any rate, from her we heard, among many other things, that the first evidence of organized fire was found in Nice, dating back some 450, 000 years.
Just as they fear the destruction of their belongings by fire or theft, businesses may also be concerned that exchange- or interest-rate movements may turn a good idea into a lossmaker.
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