Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passbook holders much more than the current rate. Many of these customers kept their money in low-paying passbook accounts even when money- market funds or bank certificates of deposit were offering interest of 15% or more, in 1981. As a result, bankers feel, passbook fans are unlikely to bolt now that money-market funds are yielding a paltry...
This delay proved to be embarrassing. A sticky bolt prevented the removal of an exterior-hatch handle. Lockheed technicians called for a special drill, which took 20 minutes to arrive. When it did, the battery was dead. There were no replacements on hand. After 90 minutes of fiddling, an ordinary hacksaw was used to free the bolt...
Rita Coolidge, 40, singer, on why she has decided to take more career chances: "Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks, and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late...
Wandering into a parking lot after the show, Deadheads were once again displaying brightly colored T-shirts. We examined several, before settling on an intricate design with a Grateful Dead skull and lightening bolt on it. The police soon began to close the Deadheads down, however, and we made our way back to the "Dead Bus." The groupies packed up, ready to head for New Jersey, site of the Dead's next concert...
...members, led by Deputy Prime Minister David Levy and Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon, pounced on Peres. They charged that his U.N. speech violated a Labor-Likud policy that opposes an international Middle East peace conference. Unless Peres offered "clarifications," Levy and Sharon threatened that Likud would bolt the government. Likud Leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens kept silent...