Word: begun
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PRESIDENT Bush has only now begun to select a foreign policy team for Central America; Vice-President Quayle calls for "the elimination of human rights." Meanwhile in aid-dependent El Salvador two important initiatives--one toward the end of the eight-year civil war, another toward a new Central American peace--mark serious steps for regional autonomy...
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) charged that Armed Services Committee Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) has begun an unnecessary investigation of Tower. Nunn responded to Dole's complaints by explaining there were "three or four new allegations" about Tower and that Nunn had consulted with other Republicans before dispatching investigators...
...anything?" asks a concerned Father Medard Laz, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in nearby Inverness. Even so, Hybels' methods are so popular that they are being copied nationwide. Three times a year, 500 pastors converge on Willow Creek to study Hybels' methods. Already dozens of copycat congregations have begun popping up around the country. One of them, founded by pastor Jim Nicodem in a shopping mall theater in nearby St. Charles four years ago, has just launched a $2.5 million fund-raising drive for a new church complex dedicated to "presenting ageless truths in a contemporary fashion." There could...
...baby boomers who shook up marketing themes 25 years ago are fast approaching middle age. Says Karp: "We'd better get our act together. In five to seven years, the boomers will begin to join the over-50 crowd." When it comes to portraying energetic oldsters, advertisers have only begun to kick up their heels...
Under mounting pressure, the EPA has begun to take action. Last month the agency announced its intention to ban the use of daminozide by next winter and said that it was barring use of the fungicide captan on 42 crops. Some find the Government's response too slow. California's Democratic Representative Henry Waxman and Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy plan to introduce federal legislation that would force the EPA to act quickly to remove dangerous pesticides from the food supply...