Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1982, I had begun to be aware of my heart. It had hurt before, but only in passing. I was aware of it, but I never thought much about it; I really didn't have time to think. By this time, I had already made more than 100 round trips between Moscow and Gorky, 250 miles away, to which Andrei had been sent in exile in 1980. Many of our friends were in trouble, some arrested, some searched, some interrogated...
Even through this is only the fourth week of the season--and only the second week of league play for a number of schools--the league has already begun to separate. And today's action should enhance the process, potentially leaving very little suspense for the second half of the season...
...sound underneath the look may remind the uninitiated of the sound-track music that usually accompanies movie scenes of airplanes landing at palm-lined airports: easy rhythm, heavy percussion, peppy horns. But Discos CBS, a division of CBS Records International, has begun signing up merengue bands, and there are indications the sound is getting slicker. Bands led by Bonny Cepeda and Wilfrido Vargas are experimenting with synthesizers as a way to bring the music to a wider audience. "The great thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they...
...rebound began almost five years ago, when stores specializing in classic and current comics started to sprout in shopping centers. Today there are about 4,000 such dealers, who account for 50% of U.S. comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed...
...with the atmosphere after a G-5 meeting at New York City's Plaza Hotel in September of last year. There the Western powers agreed to reduce the value of the dollar in concert, and thus try to undercut the U.S. trade deficit. In fact the dollar had already begun to decline, starting in February 1985, but the Plaza pact marked a commitment to continue the trend. From its February peak, the dollar fell by some 30% against other major currencies within 18 months...