Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...renovated basement, which will include expanded rehearsal space for choral groups, was originally slated to be complete by the time classes begin in the fall. But with the interruption caused by the bones, the project will likely finish in the first weeks of the school year...
...work now can only begin, because what we were able to do is just nibble on the surface, since we only had a few days," Wolff said. "I think this will keep quite a number of undergraduate and graduate students busy...
...small amount of economic growth. By putting trillions of yen in the hands of consumers, Obuchi's program saves the economy (to say nothing of his political career) and gets consumers to finally start spending. In time, that growth encourages Japan's out-of-date manufacturing firms to begin a difficult restructuring. The result is a top-down, bottom-up postindustrial revolution. And though the government has to go into hock to pay for the resuscitation, it eventually repays its deficit on the back of a newly resurgent Japan...
Lifting folded palms to the rising sun, silver-haired Veer Bhadra Mishra steps into the Ganges to begin his ritual morning ablution. As the mahant, or spiritual and administrative head, of the second largest temple in Varanasi, the main destination for Hindu pilgrims in India, Mishra is a very important man. Since the 16th century, the job has passed from father to eldest son. Devotees scramble to touch his feet, traders whisper their business hopes, and students seek his blessing before final exams. As a child he learned the sacred chants and rites--including the importance of a daily...
...ride them out. I never thought I'd be scared like that. I thought rioting was a thing of another time and another place. I could tell much more of this story, to show how marked the contrast was between the days of the festival, but nothing can begin to describe to you how it feels to actually have your life in danger, and what happens when you shut down...