Word: begun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate nor his aides seem to be encouraging or coordinating these efforts. Kennedy feels strongly that a direct challenge to Carter would seriously split the party, as Chairman White warns, but the draft efforts and his refusal to disavow, once and for all, his candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed up the President...
...overnight, Carter has begun sounding remarkably upbeat. At first it seemed the President hoped that by tinkering a bit with the American energy machine and by lessening the widespread tendency toward panic buying, he could shorten the lines at the pumps in California and vent some of the political pressure...
...shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule, Kim has gingerly begun to open up his country to the West. Two weeks ago, North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, was the site of the world table tennis championships and reunification talks between Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Among the few American reporters who have been allowed to travel inside North...
...economists' forecasts, which are strikingly similar for a group with such diverse philosophical views, call for a mild recession to begin in the summer. It is even possible that a recession has already begun. More likely, notes Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank, "the economy is slowing in a pattern that is typical of a prerecession peak...
...greater than that of movies, fairy tales or comic strips. He now believes that a "direct, positive relation" exists between TV viewing by small boys and aggressive behavior. Little girls, significantly, did not show any increase in such aggressive behavior. But a new project Eron has since begun indicates that they do now. His explanation: today TV has more violent female role models-including those in Wonder Woman and Charlie's Angels-than it had before...