Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...pupil Dade Coun ty system, fifth largest in the nation, approved the purchase as a "special needs" requisition, which took it out of normal channels of review. On the records, the material was listed as "basketball uni forms and equipment." Principal Barnes maintained that he had been planning to start a plumb ing class in the high school. Jones added: "It's not unusual for a principal to look for the best quality, even if it does cost more." But state investigators discovered that both Jones and Barnes were build ing new houses. The contractor for Jones...
...with Moscow's C.W. threat mounting, the Administration will probably have to start doing more. Advises Edinburgh's Erickson: "Not only must the West develop an offensive capability," but the Kremlin must be convinced that the West "knows how to use these weapons and is well prepared operationally to fire them...
...crisis, Chicago was helped by other factors. The relatively mild winter weather reduced the number of fires caused by temporary heating arrangements. Arsonists were reluctant to start a fire, police theorize, because under the circumstances any blaze of suspicious origins would attract unusually close scrutiny...
...month. But all agree there is some inflation flash point at which people become convinced that prices will never stop rising and lose all confidence in their currency. Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns: "At that time it appears that anything is better than holding money. People start putting everything into any tangible good they can find...
When Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman Prime Minister last May, she promised nothing less than an economic revolution. During a secure five-year mandate, she would start to reform a socialist economy plagued by years of economic stagnation, inflation, unemployment and industrial strife -whatever the cost. Now, after only ten months of the Iron Lady's rule, the cost of those policies for many Britons is already proving too high...