Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard-Radcliffe's annual "Take Back the Night Week," a week designed to raise awareness of safety issues, will begin at noon on April 14 with a "Take Back the River...
...council's first-ever College-wide elections of its president and vice president will begin one week from today...
...whose father ran a bar near Ebbets Field, has kept the next election in sight--and emily's List in mind. In fact, she is planning to apply some of emily's tactics to the trial lawyers. Her association has asked the Federal Election Commission for an O.K. to begin "partisan communications" with its members, in which the group would endorse candidates and recommend both the timing and amount of contributions. Liapakis, who learned litigation from personal-injury pioneer Harry Lipsig, describes her plan in terms of civic duty. "This is about educating our members," she says, as if enhanced...
...states may have lingering doubts about the price they have paid. Alabama pledged property-tax relief and other giveaways worth some $250 million--or more than $160,000 per job--to persuade Mercedes-Benz to locate in the town of Vance (pop. 400) a $520 million plant that will begin building sport-utility vehicles next year. A new crop of state leaders declare that their predecessors could have driven a harder bargain...
After much debate, the summit participants addressed this question with three resolutions. The Governors agreed to adopt their own "internationally competitive academic standards" within two years. The business leaders pledged that in one year they will begin asking for academic transcripts from job applicants and consider a state's educational standards when deciding where to open new plants. And all resolved to establish within 90 days an independent, nongovernmental body that will act as an "information clearinghouse," measuring, comparing and reporting on each state's annual progress...