Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...L.A.P.D. has recently tried to attack the "demand side" of the drug crisis. In the past month, officers posing as dealers have begun nabbing would-be buyers. The police are also confiscating -- permanently -- the automobiles of people who try to purchase dope through their car windows. Says Levant: "We are going to make life miserable for users until they realize that every dollar they spend for drugs adds to the violence in this country...
...Princeton chapter, like Harvard's, is not affiliated with the university and has no meeting house or living space. Whitney S. Terrell, president of the Princeton Zeta Psi, says the chapter is one of five or six "underground" fraternities at the school. He says his fraternity was begun five years ago and has around 40 members...
...dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp...
However valuable its assets, Jardines has been surpassed in size by two other Hong Kong trading firms -- Cheung Kong and Swire -- and has only recently begun to escape from a typhoon of troubles. The company bought or built many of its Hong Kong buildings in the early 1980s, just before real estate values in the colony took a dive. The collapse resulted in part from nervousness about the approach of 1997, when sovereignty over Hong Kong will pass from Britain to China. Wary of that transfer's consequences, Jardines decided in 1984 to shift its legal headquarters to Bermuda...
...enemy of a nation that much of the world is trying to court. Undeterred, the Dalai Lama has organized 53 Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal and set up institutes to preserve his country's arts, its scriptures and its medical traditions. In recent years he has begun to race around the world like a Buddhist John Paul II -- lecturing at Harvard, meeting the Pope and attending to his flock, be they unlettered peasants or the American actor Richard Gere (a student of Buddhism since 1982). Always inclined to see the good in everything, he feels that exile...