Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee for Quality of Life has already begun airing television and radio advertisements against the referendum question, and union workers around Cambridge have plastered their cars and trucks with blue-and-white bumper stickers reading "Question...
Recently the Monitor has been trying to overcome its dowdy image by expanding into other media. The Monitor's four-year-old weekly radio program is now carried on more than 220 public radio stations. Its shortwave broadcasts, begun last year, will be heard in every part of the globe by early next year. A syndicated TV series (first monthly, later weekly) was introduced in 1985 and was seen on 103 stations before being supplanted this fall by the nightly newscast. This month also marks the debut of World Monitor, a slick monthly magazine on global affairs that...
...financial shift is the capstone of several U.N. triumphs and accomplishments. In the past eight months, a number of the world's more intractable conflicts have begun to yield to mediation, and though the U.N. cannot claim to be the sole cause of the breakthroughs, its efforts have played an important role. Among the high points...
...thing is clear as kids all over the country have begun to troop back to class this fall: whether instilled by peer pressure or insisted upon by academic administrators, dress codes are in every school. Bicycle shorts, those shiny, shape-hugging racer bottoms made of Lycra, are strongly discouraged in New York public and private schools, tolerated at South High School in Minneapolis, where they are currently very popular, but dismissed as flashy by students at Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C. Traditionalists, who would not wear such shorts even on an Exercycle, claim that standard uniforms (blazers for boys...
...interim, the paper has managed to attract a sizeable chunk of American readers and even begun to turn a modest profit...