Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engines were to have begun firing six seconds before the zero mark in an otherwise perfect countdown. The shutdown came "just after the `go' for main engine start was issued" but before ignition actually began, Harris said. The shuttle's master computer system had taken control of the countdown 31 seconds before ignition. When it detected a problem in the computer that controls the engine firing sequence, it automatically sent a shutdown signal, NASA said...
...would have liked to have stayed," said Jay Hoffman, one of the owners of the club which features performances by well-known Jazz artists." But sometimes things work out for a reason. Now we can go and look for a permanent building." He added that the club had already begun negotiations for another space near its present location...
Today scientists have begun to shift the focus of research away from localized sources of pollution, like oil spills, which they now believe are manageable, short-term problems. Instead, they are concentrating on the less understood dynamics of chronic land-based pollution: the discharge of sewage and industrial waste and -- possibly an even greater menace -- the runoff from agricultural and urban areas...
With the rebel bands threatening to break Ethiopia in two, the brutal Mengistu and his secretive Marxist government have begun a frenzied effort to win back lost ground. In recent weeks government troops have retaken the major towns of Tigre, but the battle-hardened Eritreans have fought them to a stalemate. Both sides have used the region's chronic hunger as a weapon, with the rebels attacking a relief convoy and Mengistu ordering most foreign-aid workers out of Eritrea and Tigre. Some food is still reaching the estimated 2 million to 3 million victims of northern Ethiopia's latest...
...part of some Iranian officials with their country's isolation from the rest of the world. "One of the wrong things we did in the revolutionary atmosphere was constantly to make enemies," Speaker Rafsanjani recently admitted. "We pushed those who could have been neutral into hostility." Tehran has begun trying to re-establish some of its old ties. In June, after intervening on behalf of three French hostages being held in Lebanon, Iran resumed normal relations with Paris, ending nearly a year's hiatus. Last week the country quietly restored diplomatic ties with Canada, severed in 1980, after dropping...