Word: begun
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Hope, who is a senior partner in the Los Angeles-based firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker, said in a telephone interview yesterday that she was still getting used to the news and had not yet begun to consider her position on issues facing the University...
...Battered Women's Advocacy Project, begun by two law students last November, instructs volunteers from the Law School on informal court intervention for women who may be unaware of legal options or too frightened...
...defense of Kabul, however, is undergoing its biggest change since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan a decade ago. Having already withdrawn most of its 115,000-strong invasion force, Moscow has now begun pulling out the last of the estimated 15,000 troops who form the Kabul garrison and defend the corridor north to the Soviet border. By Feb. 15, the last Soviet soldier is scheduled to be gone from Afghanistan, and the Afghan military will bear sole responsibility for the security of the capital as well as the rest of the country...
...Administration might have begun better if Bush or his chief of staff, John Sununu, had written a tighter script. A series of small but telling snafus sent the White House scrambling. The day after Bush telephoned a cheer to right-to-life advocates massed nearby on the Ellipse, the New York Times reported that Louis Sullivan, the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, had privately told some Congressmen that he still believes in a woman's right to an abortion. Sullivan, who had sent mixed signals on abortion prior to his nomination in December, was summoned to Sununu...
...look at an area as small as the U.S., then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun and will soon become widely apparent. Warns the NASA scientist: "Our model predicts that by the middle of the 1990s, the greenhouse effect should be pretty clear not only to scientists, but also to the man in the street...