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Word: startingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike was widespread and militant from the start. In Boston, 14 striking New England Telephone workers were arrested for blocking the company's repair trucks. Customers in New York, New Jersey and California lost service when phone lines were sabotaged. In Van Nuys, Calif., two striking Pacific Bell employees suffered injuries when they were bumped by cars crossing the picket lines. The drivers "got angry because we called them scabs," claimed Marisa Rotondi, a shop steward for the local union. "Things are starting to get pretty bad out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Afford to Get Sick | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...them in the same working-class neighborhoods where they grew up. "We are not the sort of people," says MacGowan, "who like to be snotty bastards, out in space." They just finished playing a few dates in the States, to get Peace and Love off to a strong start, and will return next month for a lengthier series of concerts, both opening for Bob Dylan and performing on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eight Lads Putting on Airs | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...what they don't tell you in their letter, or they tell you only in fine print someplace, is that from the minute you use one of these checks they start charging you 19.8% interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How My Pal Joey Got Even | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...MasterCard's computer then saw the $10,000 payment, so MasterCard couldn't start charging him interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: How My Pal Joey Got Even | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what king of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: Grader's Reply: It's Not Really That Easy | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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