Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was one reason why the group decided at the start to confer in total secrecy, with the windows of the Pennsylvania statehouse shut tight and sentries stationed at the doors. When one delegate carelessly dropped a copy of a convention document, Washington began scolding, "I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose...
...customers, however, have shared in deregulation's bounty. Because banks started paying more to depositors, the institutions felt compelled to start charging higher fees for routine 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...
...Soviet Union, and its clients. The chances of shooting incidents multiplied greatly. The terrible power of modern weapons increased the premium on fast action, which could not wait for an old-fashioned declaration of war. The threat of nuclear holocaust dictated the need to limit whatever wars did start. That also worked against declarations of war and simultaneously made difficult, if not impossible, a clean-cut victory...
...Nguyen was graduated from West Jefferson High last month with perfect scores and a four-year Martin Luther King Scholarship to Brandeis University, where she will start the long road toward becoming a physician...
Philadelphia, where the words were debated and written, will of course put on the biggest bash. Preparations got off to a slow and shaky start, and only in the past few months has the administrative snarl been untangled. But local officials were justly proud of the Memorial Day weekend celebrations, attended by Vice President Bush. "Everything went without a hitch," says Sam Rogers, a spokesman for We the People 200, which is managing events...