Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, as women have fought vehemently against the myth that they secretly desire to be sexually dominated, psychologists and law enforcement authorities have begun to recognize so-called "date rape" as a reprehensible form of abuse...
...aluminum siding salesman, Ueberroth was born in Evanston, Ill. on September 2, 1937. When he was 14, after his father became ill, Ueberroth began working a variety of odd jobs. He became increasingly independent, and by the time he was in high school, he had begun to pay his own bills. In Ueberroth's junior year, he moved out of the house to live and work at an orphanage as the recreational director...
Nearly two years after the University announced plans to tear down 8 and 10 Mt. Auburn St. in order to construct more housing for Harvard affiliates, construction on a modified version of the project has finally begun...
...what Cuomo calls "my defense budget"--money appropriated for law- and-order--he has built more than 6,000 new prison cells for the overcrowded New York system. He has proposed a Medicaid bill that reforms the method of payment, saving the state money. New York has begun an innovative program to provide capital construction money to nonprofit groups to build housing for the homeless. It has also pioneered a variation on "workfare" programs, permitting welfare recipients to receive job training...
...access to sensitive intelligence data and, in later years, money troubles. After Pelton left the NSA in 1979, according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community. Lately, however, they have begun raising problems for the press as well. In covering spy cases, the media face a delicate dilemma: How much can they report about the secrets involved without further harming U.S. security? Two news organizations grappled with that question last week under the hostile gaze of CIA Director William Casey...