In the days since the encounter with five Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz, American officers have acknowledged that they have been studying anew the lessons from a startling simulation conducted in August 2002.
Justice Ginsburg said that no specific authority was needed, given a half-century of general precedent that applied "even to conduct startling in its novelty" — throwing people out of a public government event for views expressed elsewhere.
But many question whether the election rhetoric will succeed in rooting out a deeply unfair French system where the super-rich often manage to pay barely any tax at all, conducting startling tax dodges by hiring top accountants to pick through the myriad legal loopholes in their favour.
Perhaps such residual feelings of goodwill explain the otherwise startling finding from polls conducted as recently as 2011.
It is inevitable that his critics and opponents will seize on the startling revelations about Gordon Brown's conduct towards cabinet colleagues and Number 10 staff.
They produced startling photography from space and conducted a bold spacewalk to pull dangling bits of cloth from the shuttle's underbelly, a procedure that the spacewalker Dr. Robinson called "the first baby step" to developing the capability for repair while in orbit.
The China study : the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health.
Then, last month, Mr. Ahmadinejad made the startling announcement that Tehran was "presently conducting research" on the P-2, boasting that it would quadruple Iran's enrichment powers.
But this inspection, conducted in mid-June, was startling.
This is startling, considering how much money organizations spend conducting employee surveys and reorganizations, engaging consultants and implementing change initiatives.
For whatever reason I suddenly realized that as a spin-off from my memoir I was conducting an unscientific but nevertheless startling "poll" as it were.
