Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive, culminating conservation efforts begun two years ago by a K-School staff member, marks the first permanent, school-wide recycling effort at Harvard...
...recycling effort stems from work begun in 1987 by Katie Smith, a K-School research assistant, who in turn galvanized student support for environmental conservation...
Cambodian officials have repeatedly assured reporters that they are capable of fighting the guerrillas without Vietnamese military support, but they concede that some Phnom Penh residents have begun stocking rice and other staples in anticipation of a cut-off of supplies to the capital...
...meet such needs, United and other airlines have begun to consider in- house programs to train their own mechanics. American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier, has already started such a school. American currently runs 30- sec. TV commercials that stress maintenance and extol the airline's mechanics as "uncompromising professionals dedicated to perfection, flight after flight after flight." Meanwhile, the stock of AMR, American's parent company, jumped 13% in a single day last month on rumors that the firm might become the target of a takeover bid. But like Delta, which put 14% of its stock into an employee...
Sometimes, winning your heart's desire is the first step toward losing it. Canadian developer Robert Campeau is learning that lesson, and has only begun ; to pay the price. A onetime machinist's apprentice and a self-made real estate tycoon, Campeau, 66, borrowed his way to the top shelf of the U.S. retailing industry. He spent $3.6 billion in 1986 to buy the Allied group of stores (holdings: Brooks Brothers, Bonwit Teller and Jordan Marsh). Last year he won a $6.6 billion bidding war with R.H. Macy for control of Federated Department Stores, a costly victory that gained...