Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial question is whether the recent uptick in interest rates signals the start of a long-term trend. On this issue economists are divided. Goldman Sachs Economist Robert Giordano declares that the recent run-up will prove short lived. He expects rates to fall below 8% by the end of the year. Kaufman, of Salomon Brothers, is characteristically pessimistic, predicting that long-term rates will rise by nearly a percentage point, to 9.5%, by the end of the year...
...costs more money than booze and takes more time," says Thompson Marsh, a professor at the University of Denver College of Law. Marsh, 84, who began listing birds in 1918, still hunts with the pack and is ranked fifth on the North American list. If someone wants to start a Birdwatchers Anonymous, says Marsh, he is ready to join. "I experience recurring intervals of lucidity," he says. "When a chaffinch turned up in New Brunswick, I stayed right here and I felt fine. Maybe there's hope...
...same time, the collapse of standards brings ethical issues to the forefront. Many Americans feel a need to start rebuilding the edifice, to re- evaluate the basis of public morality. In so doing, says Joseph Kockelmans, professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, "people may finally begin to take responsibility for their lives, instead of just being sheep...
...even tougher questions. For their part, his Soviet hosts had made it clear that they held him accountable for "frictions" in Franco-Soviet relations. Thus it came as no surprise last week that French Premier Jacques Chirac's visit to Moscow got off to a sharply contentious start...
Perhaps part of the reason for many of the Administration's sundry collisions with the law is that it is operating under a new set of rules: it is the first to be covered from the start by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. Yet to a large degree it is the very ideology of the President and his Administration that seems to encourage a climate of abuse. Reagan appointees have tended to share a common philosophy about government: less is better, none is best. Many appear to have come to Washington with an innate disrespect for its institutions...