Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sorrowful the Bookmaker, Philly the Weeper and Harry the Horse, Damon Runyon made gambling a rollicking game. Americans bet $32 billion with bookies every year, and an additional $17 billion on legal lotteries. Gamblers will always gamble, the states often say when they enter the racket, just before they start advertising for more gamblers. Speaking of myths, legends and lies, the Government's famous plan to supplant Harry the Horse in the bookie business should never have been taken seriously. Harry has always given the customers something that Lotto and OTB never will. Credit...
Pope, Schofield and four other bishops who now head regular Episcopal dioceses will also be the leaders of six Synod "areas" across the U.S. Fireworks are likely to start if, without approval, one of these six Synod bishops moves into a liberal diocese to perform rites for a traditionalist parish. Such a radical step, some believe, would break canon law and constitute a schism. Getting right down to basics, a spokesman for the diocese of southeast Florida contends that if and when a parting of the ways occurs, there will be serious legal and financial opposition to the schismatics, with...
...AIDS deaths result from Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. But studies reported in Montreal confirm that pentamidine inhaled directly into the lungs is dramatically effective in preventing the pneumonia from developing. Federal health officials are so impressed by the drug that they will recommend that those infected with the virus start monthly aerosol treatments as soon as their immune systems begin to weaken...
...start of the week, the President suspended all military sales to China. That froze in the pipeline some $500 million of undelivered equipment, mainly electronics gear to improve the performance of F-8 fighter planes. Bush also authorized the Immigration and Naturalization Service to extend the visas of Chinese students in the U.S., many of whom are afraid to go home. Later in the week, as outright civil war seemed to threaten, the State Department urged all Americans in China to get out, and made that an order for families and dependents of its diplomats. By week's end some...
...issued an operating permit to New York's Shoreham nuclear power plant, though its owner, the Long Island Lighting Co., had agreed to dismantle it. Then the NRC decided to permit a limited go-ahead for the controversial Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant. Thousands of activists demonstrated against the start of Seabrook's low-power tests (734 were arrested) on the very weekend before the Sacramento vote. By its effectiveness alone, the referendum became the most potent demonstration ever against nuclear power. What made it more potent still was the unusual nature of the campaign against Rancho Seco...