That's a total of 1, 576 steps, starting at the lobby and finishing at the observation deck.

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It was unclear what other steps, in total, the Justice Department might have taken to get information in the case.

WSJ: Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records

The application then analyzes the total customer experience and recommends scripts or next steps that guide the agent on the phone, and hopefully keep the customer happy.

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Some suggest using the ultimate goal of total elimination just as a framework for a whole series of steps that could in time ensure greater security, with much reduced nuclear numbers.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear disarmament

And the looming block obsolescence of its existing nuclear energy infrastructure -- which currently supplies 8% of total U.S. daily consumption -- means that, unless steps are promptly taken to prepare, certify and bring on-line safe, modern replacement reactors, America will become still more vulnerable to threats, or actual interruptions of, its overseas oil supplies.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Its recommendations, to which the government has not responded, included taking steps to extend positive-discrimination measures to those tribals perhaps a fifth of the total who lack them.

ECONOMIST: India's criminal tribes