Word: begun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter moved quickly to recover. He made an appearance of his own before reporters to proclaim that he had begun working to ease California's gas shortage long before Brown's visit. On May 1, Carter said, the Department of Energy changed the gasoline allocation formula so that California will get more gas. Previously allocations were based on 1978 supplies; the formula will now take into consideration population growth...
...rzburger Hofbrä'u has begun shipping beer in bulk to Anheuser-Busch, which is bottling it for test marketing in Boston, Hartford, and Atlanta. If the tests prove promising, the beer will go into national distribution. For at least some German brewers, that should help reduce tension and cut down on those sleepless nights...
...history has been anything but. Subject to sporadic invasions by Chinese, Japanese and Mongols. Korea has long suffered the imposition of foreign political, religious and aesthetic traditions. Understandably, its art was long considered provincial and derivative. Spurred by archaeological discoveries of the past five decades though, historians have finally begun to recognize the Korean achievement, which Americans can now see in the most comprehensive exhibition of Korean art ever assembled...
...Senate, which must ratify the treaty by a two-thirds majority. The debate in the Senate over ratification will cover a range of questions, including one of history: Who conceded what to whom in exchange for what in the course of the negotiations? Attention has already begun to focus on the confused but climactic phase of SALT II, from the beginning of the Carter presidency until last week's announcement. Believing that one way to grasp SALT is to understand its evolution, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott has spent much of the past year reconstructing the Administration's conduct...
...just been elected President, and the Kremlin was nervous. After eight years of dealing productively with Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the Soviets found themselves confronted in January 1977 with a largely unknown quantity. Would this new American Administration finish the work on a Strategic Arms Limitation treaty begun by Nixon and continued by Ford? The SALT I interim agreement limiting strategic offensive arms, signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, was due to expire in October 1977. Brezhnev and Ford had agreed at Vladivostok in 1974 on the framework of a new treaty to run until 1985: each side...