Word: begun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...already the city of 10 million had begun to stir. Supporters of the students banged pots and pans to wake neighbors and send them into the streets with a mission: stop the trucks and armored personnel carriers heading toward Tiananmen, the vast square that has been the center stage of Chinese politics for more than three centuries. Because troops stationed in Beijing might not comply with orders out of sympathy with the hunger strikers, the forces were drawn from nearby provinces. Many of the soldiers were peasant boys who had spent the previous week in camps outside the city. Forbidden...
...Khint case was not the real issue, according to Gdlyan's colleague, Ivanov, 37. During a televised debate Ivanov, who was running for a Leningrad seat in the legislature, said Gdlyan was suspended because his investigations had begun to implicate leading officials, including Ligachev and former Politburo members Grigori Romanov and Mikhail Solomentsev...
...seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time in its 117-year history...
...antitrust subcommittee, that would limit the number of subscribers that any system operator could control to 25% of the total U.S. cable audience. The FCC, meanwhile, is preparing a report on the impact of cable deregulation that is due out next year. In a separate action, the agency has begun reviewing a rule that bars broadcast networks from owning cable systems. The networks already have interests in cable channels that range from NBC's month-old Consumer News & Business Channel to the ESPN sports channel, a venture of ABC and RJR Nabisco...
...poor soul lost en route to Philadelphia who happened to stumble into Farrell Stadium in West Chester, Pa. would have wondered what was going on. Had the year's most important lacrosse game just ended, or had a party just begun...