Word: begun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those turnabouts that create strange political bedfellows, the Senate minority leader and other Republicans have begun meeting on a regular basis with the President. Snubbed by many Democrats, Carter needs all the support he can get in Congress and thus welcomes the Republican advice. The Republicans, on the other hand, are worried that Carter may continue to stumble so badly that he will be denied the nomination. The G.O.P. leaders do not want this to happen because they figure Carter would be the easiest candidate to beat...
...Navy has begun upgrading housing, and will send two additional senior officers to Great Lakes so that disciplinary hearings can be conducted swiftly. Petty officers have been assigned to each floor of the barracks to increase security and enforce discipline. Said Senior Chief Petty Officer Thomas Phillips: "The new rules have already changed things. This is finally a military establishment...
...ferocity of this assault may turn out to be an error. The intended victims have begun organizing their re-election campaigns earlier than they would in a "normal" pre-election year. N.C.P.A.C.'s gambit is also causing dissension among New Right strategists, who are not as united as they seem. Weyrich's newsletter openly criticized Dolan's approach in Idaho and warned that he risked a backlash favoring Church. Weyrich's apprehension that Church may be perceived as the home-town underdog being attacked by alien bullies matches exactly Church's own strategy for survival...
Even the world's supposedly greatest metropolis has lately begun to sound like one of those boosteristic burgs that Sinclair Lewis used to deride. There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder...
...young woman has begun to make a small fortune on Wall Street by selling municipal bonds to doctors and dentists. They pay in cash from earnings they have not reported to the Internal Revenue, and there is no record of the bond purchases because they are so-called bearer bonds and therefore do not carry the name of the owner. Gambling casinos are surging in part because they are convenient places to spend cash. Says Albert W. Merck, a member of New Jersey's casino control commission: "A casino fills a fascinating function in an economy where there...