Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the illogic of cutting off the contras as a reaction to the excesses of their Administration backers, State Department officials see no way that, in light of the Tower findings, Reagan can win the additional $105 million he is requesting for the cause. Some have already begun referring to the anti-Sandinista rebels in the past tense. Says one official long involved in the contra war: "We had been devising a strategy to somehow save this thing, but after this report, it's all over. We need to start thinking about evacuating the contras, figuring out what...
...troops marched into that country in 1968 to stamp out the short- lived Prague spring of liberalization, the regime of Gustav Husak, 74, has pursued policies of stolid central planning coupled with rigid political control. Now, encouraged by Gorbachev's words, reformers within the Communist Party appear to have begun a campaign against conservatives. In the process they have encouraged some public support. GORBACHEV can be seen scrawled on a number of Prague walls, and in Pilsen and Bratislava last month small groups of people waved banners declaring WE WANT GORBACHEV...
...York City high-rises to beachfront hotels in Hawaii. Eager as customers at a close-out sale, these investors from the Far East snapped up as much as $6 billion worth of U.S. real estate last year, more than four times the 1985 level, and they have only begun to shop...
Some organizations have even begun to offer massage as a paid employee perk-up. At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, addled workers can get on-site soothing. At Merrill Lynch's Manhattan headquarters, a therapist is on staff. Steve Herfield, president of Manhattan Temporaries, pays for up to two minimassages a week for each of his twelve employees. "Some were skeptical at first," he recalls. "Now they'd like it every day. It's a real break and a real lift." Not always, however. Some therapists report that staffers occasionally are left so relaxed that they nod off at their desks...
...falling value of the U.S. dollar, which has declined 20% against the Japanese yen and 21% against the West German mark in the past year. Heller pointed out ( that the Reagan Administration's policy of allowing the greenback's value to fall against those currencies has finally begun to stimulate U.S. exports by making American products less expensive overseas. That may soon improve the distressing U.S. trade deficit, which reached $170 billion last year. Nonetheless, the trade statistics do not yet show a clear-cut trend. Figures released last week showed that the January deficit was $14.78 billion, which...