Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta is a wary town, haunted by an evil memory, touchy about anything reminiscent of that grim time. Just when lingering anxiety over the slaying of 28 black youths from 1979 to 1981 had begun to recede, a new series of murders with a different type of victim has recalled a period the city wants only to forget...
...recent years, the endowment income has begun accounting for a lower proportion of the University's budget. As a result, tuition has risen and begun accounting for a larger segment of the budget. Over the last 10 years, HMC reinvested income on the endowment to to help offset the inflation rate, but at the same time University expenses were growing and outstripping the amount of endowment income allocated to the general budget. The endowment, which paid for 22 percent of the University's expenses in 1974, only funded 18 percent last year. Tuition increases above the rate of inflation have...
...electric samovar for making tea and nine blue-and-white porcelain figurines. More important, he gave the President a letter from Gorbachev in which the Soviet leader expressed his desire for "concrete agreements" at the next summit and said that he was "still serious about maintaining the dialogue" begun at Geneva...
That is a heavy burden for even so rich a country as Saudi Arabia, especially since its great wealth has begun to shrink. From a peak of $113 billion in 1981, Saudi oil earnings dropped to $28 billion last year. Uncertainty over petroleum prices and revenues prompted Fahd last month to take the unprecedented step of postponing approval of the country's new budget until summer. To the Saudis, accustomed to decision making by royal decree, the delay was a sign of indecision and uncertainty at the country's highest political level...
...Gerardo Carante, said that only six of the Italian firms whose wines are suspected of being contaminated have shipped products to the U.S.* Nonetheless, BATF Director Stephen Higgins announced that all Italian wine entering this country would have to carry a certificate of purity that the Italian government has begun issuing for bottles cleared for export. Shipments that left Italy before the Rome government began requiring the certificates would be prohibited from entering U.S. markets...