Word: began
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even Joe began his public-service career in the semiprivate sector, though he did it as a kind of springboard to his political career. Twenty years ago, he started Citizens Energy, a nonprofit corporation that provides low-cost heating fuel to the poor. When he was first elected to Congress in 1986, he complained bitterly and in public about how much it frustrated him to be a powerless freshman after running his socially beneficial fuel operation. After leaving the House, he returned to his job there, having absorbed the lesson that a well-run nonprofit corporation--Citizens Energy...
Jean Kennedy Smith 1928- --In 1974 she began Very Special Arts to foster art for the handicapped. She was recently Ambassador to Ireland --Late husband Stephen Smith managed both of R.F.K.'s campaigns...
...beginning to stick. (Sensitive to the charge, Bush half seriously asked his finance chairman if there was any way "to slow down" the flow of contributions.) And to make matters worse, Bill Clinton was trying to provoke Bush from the presidential podium, archly recalling how in 1991 he began his presidential bid by telling voters exactly what policies he would pursue. Pressed by a reporter in Ames, Iowa, to say when he planned to start talking substance, Bush pursed his lips and suggested he wouldn't be rushed: "There's a pace to a campaign that's important to maintain...
...owners, Peter Palandjian '87 and Paul Palandjian '88--whose firm, Intercontinental Developers Incorporated, began construction on the property in 1997--said they were excited about doing a major project in Harvard Square...
When whistles began coming closer to our tent, as did the dull growl of angry people, we began to gather our few remaining personal belongings and waited by the door, foiling one man who attempted to relieve himself on our walls. It was two of our previous customers who encouraged us to leave...