Word: started
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...make a commendable start, and for a few months the hyperinflation he inherited was subsiding. But in early December his program of wage-and-price strictures began to crumble. Interest rates on short-term bank deposits soared out of control, to 600% monthly. Nervous investors began to turn their assets into dollars, and the flight from the austral began in earnest...
Will the 49ers tower over the '90s as they have over the past decade? A victory in the New Orleans Superdome later this month would start them on their way. True, they must first clear the play-off hurdles, but their outlook is promising. Grouped with New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Minnesota, the 49ers have already beaten the first three this year, and they routed the Vikings in last year's play-offs. According to professional bookmakers, the most likely Super Bowl pairing would pit the 49ers against the Denver Broncos, with Montana and Co. favored by 10 points...
BILLY JOEL: STORM FRONT (Columbia). A monster hit album, with Joel's crazily ! catchy buzz-word history of the past 40 years, We Didn't Start the Fire, plus nine other effortlessly obnoxious ditties that take on such subjects as glasnost and the plight of Long Island fishermen. The musical equivalent of a sociology lecture by Ralph Kramden...
...account of the turmoil caused by his receipt of $850,000 from Charles Keating, the former owner of Lincoln Savings and Loan. "When the press pounced upon us before we filled out the marriage-license forms, it became clear to me that this is not an appropriate time to start a marriage," said Cranston, who has started two marriages before. "It would not be fair to Cathy to bring her into the middle of a stressful situation...
...average of 9.2%. "The price of drugs is running out of control," warns Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment and a leading legislative advocate of lower costs. "If the price increases continue, the public is going to demand that Congress start changing...