Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reporters mobbed him, cameramen jostled him, and flashing strobe lights so blinded him that he walked right past the committee-room door. "After five months of rumor, leaks and innuendo," Deaver bravely declared, "today is my day." But it was clear that the media's feeding frenzy had just begun and that the capital had been seized by one of its periodic fits of morality...
...determine whether the effect of the HTLV-III virus is exaggerated by certain lifestyles or diseases that target the immune system. For nearly four years, Hirsch and his MGH team have been following 170 gay men in the Boston area, seeing them at regular three-month intervals. This study, begun before scientists had discovered HTLV-III, was originally designed to determine the cause of AIDS. Although they have not yet formulated any conclusions, Hirsch says they will continue to study cofactors, placing special emphasis on the herpes group viruses which often infect AIDS patients...
Groopman has begun a similar study of how AIDS is spread, involving as many as 500 patients over the course of three years. He plans to look at AIDS patients and their partners to determine what cofactors may be involved...
...workday was just an hour old. Nearly 200 employees in the red-tiled colonial building that houses Colombo's central telegraph offices were busy at their posts. Customers had begun to queue up to pay bills, make calls at the public phone booths and send telegrams. Suddenly the morning routine was shattered by an explosion that echoed throughout the downtown area of the capital. Two floors of the three-story structure collapsed. As rescue workers sifted through the wreckage for survivors, police commandeered cars to transport the wounded to hospitals. Twelve people died and more than 100 were injured...
...Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine, who has begun to worry about her friend's behavior. "Sometimes I tell you I feel insane --and what's more--what's terrible: I revel in it!" When Betsy informs her lover that she wants to give up her job and privileges for him, he reacts with outrage: "You have everything...