Word: began
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...Year 1, and not Year 0, the 21st Century and the Third Millennium do not begin until January 1, 2001. Though some people have great difficulty in grasping this, there's a very simple analogy which should appeal to everyone. If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?" Clarke is right. No one likes to be overcharged...
...campaign began in the spring of 1998, when PSLM invited Dominican workers to speak to students about factory conditions...
...group then began holding rallies on the steps of Widener Library, calling for Harvard to adopt a policy of full disclosure, requiring its licensees to release the names and locations of its factories...
...when she ate them at a restaurant. Could it be the gloves food handlers wear? To test the hypothesis, researchers fed her orange juice stirred with a finger sheathed in latex as well as untampered juice. Sure enough, minutes after drinking the stirred juice, her chest tightened and wheezing began. Researchers suspect she's not alone...
...real estate doesn't come cheap. In 1996, Grass shelled out $1.4 billion for a thousand Thrifty PayLess drugstores on the West Coast. Then a year ago, he spent $1.5 billion on PCS Health Systems, a pharmacy-benefit manager that oversees employees' prescription coverage. Even Miller, whose retailing career began in high school as a bottle sorter for a California grocer, admits, "I wouldn't have been able to manage all that...