Word: begun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without warning, a second nuclear era had begun. Gone was the industry's and government's confidence of old; reappraisal and caution would now be the order of the day. The unthinkable had come perilously close to happening, causing second thoughts about the form of energy that promises to relieve dependence on ever diminishing, ever more expensive fossil fuel supplies...
...SALT II offensive has begun. With a powerful rhetorical barrage, the Carter Administration last week started fighting in earnest to win support for a new U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation treaty. In Chicago, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski denounced "unwarranted alarmist" criticisms of the accord and declared that the treaty would "lead to more peaceful relations" between the two superpowers. In Manhattan a day later, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown called SALT "the foundation for progress In establishing an enduring political relationship with the Soviets that reduces tensions and sets important visible bound aries to our ideological and political...
...stove league, that long winter of "Remember when . . ." and "Who was it that . . . ?" Today such gentle ruminations have been all but drowned out by the ringing of cash registers, as players who have learned to measure the value of strong arms and big bats in the open market have begun renegotiating contracts...
...occupation had begun in the early afternoon of April 9. About 300 demonstrators had taken the building to publicize a list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships; reinstatement of the scholarships of students disciplines in the wake of an earlier anti-ROTC demonstration at Paine Hall; a roll-back in rents on all Harvard-owned buildings to their January 1, 1968 level; no destruction of black workers' homes to allow for expansion of the Medical School...
...housing market has begun to weaken slightly, and auto sales are not moving quite so briskly as they did last autumn. Consumer spending has also begun to slow somewhat, yet inflation, which in February hit an average annual pace of more than 15%, continues unchecked. By Administration estimates, last week's rise in imported oil costs should add another one-quarter to one-half point to the rate...