Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Congress start curing our ailing industry, like automobiles in Detroit [July 21], by proclaiming that profit is not a dirty word. Let's also decree that employees give a day's work for a day's wage and establish that industry must only be reasonably safe and reasonably nonpolluting. Then we can chisel in stone: "The Government cannot and will not cure ailing industry...
...rights. Only two months earlier, police in Flint, Mich., had raided a local printing firm looking for information related to an article in the Flint Voice criticizing the mayor. After two such incidents in so short a time, many journalists are worried that police in other cities will now start to launch their own raids...
...Army abandoned its plans to prosecute, apparently because of a bungled investigation that spoiled key evidence. In 1972 the Justice Department took on the case, but committed a crucial error by taking more than two years to convene a grand jury to hear the evidence. The trial did not start until last July...
...British are supposed to be above such nonsense. After all, their prime-time soaps (such as The Forsyte Saga, Poldark and Upstairs, Downstairs) are to the American brand what Yardley is to Lifebuoy. But after a slow start, Dallas grew from a guilty secret to a national craze. When the BBC broadcast last season's final episode, normally congested roads were clear and pubs empty as 30 million Britons (more than half of the U.K.'s population) stayed home to watch J.R. get his. On the news program that night, the BBC replayed the shooting as a news...
...trying to make them understand that policy-makers are not just dolts and fools," says Champion. "We start by looking up at the policy makers and then having the people look within their own departments...