Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...services, usually to customers with puny balances in their accounts. The average fee for a bounced check increased from $5.07 in 1979 to $11.71 last year. Banks began increasing the holding period on deposited checks to as long as three weeks, which enabled the institutions to earn a tidy return on the funds. But consumers became steamed, and by last week Congress was close to approving legislation that would ultimately limit the holding period to two days on local checks and five days on most out-of-state checks...
...increasing supply of crude, however, is likely to drive the price below $20. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is now pumping 17 million bbl. a day, well above its official production ceiling of 15.8 million bbl. The consensus of energy forecasters: oil will not return to last year's $10 trough any time soon, nor will it climb to the $30-plus range that bedeviled consumers in the early 1980s...
...rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
...tried by a military court and sentenced to death for inciting students to rise against the government. After the sentence was first commuted to life in prison and then reduced to 20 years, Kim was permitted to go to the U.S. in 1982. Since his return in 1985, the devoutly Roman Catholic Kim has been banned from political activities and kept under 24-hour surveillance. Yet he remains a powerful force behind the scenes, advising opposition leaders by telephone and devising political strategies...
...light. He found it increasingly difficult to stay awake. Says Kennedy: "It was all I could do to get up to go to the bathroom." He was not alone. In the nearby Lake Tahoe area, about 150 others reported similar complaints. Two years later Kennedy has yet to return to work. Says he: "If you push yourself...