Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have begun to recognize the fact that I am officially entering the latter half of the initial phase of the beginning of the rest of my life. Granted, I don't know what this means yet, but I'll be 20 years old in the fall, and I'm not getting any younger. Why does it bother me so much that I'm beginning to sound like my parents...
...much broader trend toward the complete denuclearization of NATO. Gorbachev set the stage for debating this several weeks ago, when he proposed opening talks on reducing the remaining short-range nuclear arsenals in Europe. The U.S. adamantly opposes the timing, arguing that conventional arms talks, which have just begun, must be wrapped up first. But the West German government is under enormous pressure to persuade the Americans to agree to start bargaining immediately for "equal but lower" levels of short-range nuclear weapons. Some leading West Germans are even pushing for eventual elimination of all short-range nuclear arms...
...everyone in Luo's generation was lost. Spring Bamboo, published early this year, is a collection of stories by Chinese writers under 40, gathered and edited by Jeanne Tai, a New York City attorney. The variety of their expressions and subjects indicates that culture has begun to seep back to the mainland. Wesleyan Professor Ann-ping Chin offers more proof of recovery in the recent Children of China, a survey of youth in the People's Republic. "One cannot say that all China's cultural symbols and cultural assumptions were reduced to ruins," she writes. "They seem to be endowed...
Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...
Just as these challenges become more urgent, state and local resources with which to meet them are being cut off. Although Proposition 2 1/2 initially drained funding away from peripheral programs such as elective courses and extra-curriculars in many public schools, administrators have begun to cut deeper...