Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's $27 million in assistance could not be accounted for. In Miami two weeks ago, contra dissidents told reporters that field commanders had bilked the U.S. by submitting false receipts for food and supplies. Contra leaders denied the charges, but the Republican-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee has begun its own probe...
...with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without being reduced to mediocrity," said LeRoy. "I don't know what the answer is. I know you can't ! just...
...selection process had begun quietly three weeks earlier. In late May, Burger asked for an appointment with the President, ostensibly to discuss the 1987 celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. Reagan's aides were reluctant; as chairman of the Commission on the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, Burger was constantly complaining that the celebration was short of funds and understaffed. Still, Burger was invited down to the White House. Only after he had chatted with Reagan for 20 minutes about the bicentennial did Burger drop the bombshell that he was resigning, a year earlier than most expected...
...lobby called Save British Science, is that "technical staff have been shed, equipment and buildings cannot be maintained and morale is destroyed by absence of career prospects." Worse yet, since 1980 Germany and France have boosted funds for new research by 30% to 40%, so that British brains have begun to drain off to the east as well as the west...
...Daddy!" the five-year-old said, staring out at the magic monorail, "thank you so much for bringing me here!" The boy's father must have wondered what he or Walt Disney Co. could do for an encore. The family's vacationland adventure had just begun; in fact, they were still at Orlando International Airport, in transit from the arrivals lounge to baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans and high technology on the fritz. Standing...