Word: begun
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...underreported, he notes, in part because of concern about stigmatizing the deceased. Nonetheless, suicide is the third leading cause of death in - adolescents and young adults. In the 15-to-19-year age group, the suicide rate has almost tripled since 1958. However, since 1981, the rate has begun to level...
...officials said that they have improved services for tenants. A new policy, begun this year, allows renters to mail in housing applications. In the past, all applications had to be submitted in person. "It will allow people outside Cambridge to have an equal crack at housing," Kossan...
Tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled that year; many of those that left have just begun to return. Martial law was instated and has only recently been relaxed. But do not be deceived. Chilean repression has grown more sophisticated, but not weaker nor less widespread...
...pressing problems: official corruption. Last month former President Shagari, who had been kept under house arrest since 1984, was cleared of personal involvement in corrupt practices, despite reports that $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury during his administration. And a methodical purge of corrupt officials begun by Buhari has been slowed down. Concluded a British expert on Nigerian affairs: "Babangida will always fall short on ruthless measures against corruption because nearly everyone involved in the government is corrupt...
...given three additional years in prison for "continuing to consider himself not guilty." Visiting him in 1984, his mother, a Soviet citizen, found him shockingly emaciated and in severe pain from heart disease. Last month, however, Shcharansky wrote his family that he had recently begun to receive better treatment and some medical care, apparently so he could make a presentable appearance in the West...