Meanwhile, the financial sector-banks, brokers and insurance and credit card purveyors-basks in the sun.

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Mr. Muldoon, a director of operations for card rooms at a country club, reads the Sun Sentinel.

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Cal Fire Battalion Chief Julie Hutchinson said winds are the wild card in vanquishing the blaze, since they were picking up as the sun rose.

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ID-card system is not difficult, says Richard Barrington, head of government affairs at Sun Microsystems.

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