Word: begins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dining hall workers begin their day at the crack of dawn, according to Union Manager Katherine E. D'Andria. Three morning cooks and two dining hall administrators arrive at the Union each day at 5 a.m. to start preparing breakfast, D'Andria says. The rest of the morning staff, except for part-time and student workers, is in by 6:30 and stays until...
Harvard will begin construction this August of a two-building complex on the recently-acquired St. Paul's Church parking lot with a completion date set for spring, 1991, a University administrator said yesterday...
...years ago last week, another adamant Likud leader, Menachem Begin, signed a peace treaty with Egypt and embraced his foe, Anwar Sadat. At a meeting of Israel-bond volunteers in Washington commemorating that breakthrough, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel movingly evoked the dilemma felt by many Jews. Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, warned against allowing frustration over the absence of peace to be translated into disunity. "I feel so much gratitude to the people of Israel and to the State of Israel," he said, "that I simply cannot bring myself to become a judge over my people...
What to do? An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to flood an acre one foot deep, and if you can find 70,000 of them lying around for the taking in Southern California, you can probably change your name to Yahweh and begin collecting burnt offerings. No obvious replacement source presented itself in the Mono Lake dispute until recently, when an economist named Zach Willey suggested that the city and the environmentalists get together to buy water from farmers on the western side of the Sierras in California's vast central valley...
...deals. One farmer states the proposition from Willey's point of view: "You get the price up, and if farm prices aren't so good, you're going to get other districts saying, 'Look what those fellows are doing over there.' " A price upwards of $125 might begin to stir their interest. Then they grimace and stare at their thumbs as if to say they honestly wished they could do better...