Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...girls have begun to dance. They are wearing bikini underwear and long white T-shirts. The shirts have slits down the middle, starting at the neck. Two muscular Checkers' employees fire water from machine gun shaped squirt guns at the girls' chests...
Ironically, Campanis is now working unofficially for the Commissioner's office, promoting minority employment in baseball. A year after his fall, he has begun the long ride on the road to redemption...
...illustrate the paradox at the heart of today's computer science. The most powerful computing machines -- giant number crunchers possessed of speed and storage capacities beyond human comprehension -- are essentially dumb brutes with no more intellectual depth than a light bulb. At the other extreme are computers that have begun to exhibit the first glimmers of human-like reasoning, but only within the confines of narrowly defined tasks...
...recent months the Egyptian government has quietly begun instituting measures to save water. Since October, outflow from the Aswan dam has been reduced by more than 10%; irrigation water that once flooded more than 250,000 acres of rice fields, or 25% of Egypt's total production, has been cut off. To cope with the anticipated decrease in hydroelectricity, the government plans to add four new gas- and oil-fired electric generating plants to Egypt's overtaxed power system in the next year. Cost: $300 million...
Student CCL representatives also said they had heard complaints that the shuttle service was not following the new schedule begun this spring. But Jewett said students should wait until after the new director of the shuttle service has a chance to settle into his office before conducting an investigation...