Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abadia told a news conference earlier in the day that exercises begun over the weekend by the U.S. Southern Command were "acts of arrogance that are intolerable" and that Panama was "suffering the aggression of a foreign colossus...
...those who have struggled to lose weight or keep it off, research into the origins of obesity has begun to offer an absolution of sorts. Last week two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that some fat people, rather than being slothful or gluttonous, have an inborn predisposition to gain weight. Reason: instead of burning off excess calories as others do, obese bodies are programmed to convert them into fat. Thus, while fat people may eat the same amount of food as thinner people do, they gain more weight. Moreover, their tendency...
...more good for him right here by keeping this economy going." And how does he plan to do that? By putting pressure on the Federal Reserve, critics of the Administration say, to expand the money supply and reduce interest rates. As the campaign heats up, the Democrats have begun complaining that Baker and other White House policymakers are trying to play politics with the economy...
...same time Pat Robertson had begun his broadcasting. That was never enough. Way back when Pat was a wild kid at Washington and Lee, he had inhaled the vapors of power around his dad's Senate office, where he often visited, sleeping in the Senate gym to be near great events. Yet young Robertson had a tumultuous relationship with his father. Saying he was acting on the Lord's orders to avoid politics, Pat did not help his father in the re-election run of 1966. Willis lost and left the Senate a "broken, defeated man," as described...
...secessionist uprising has begun to stir in the Torres Strait Islands, a balmy archipelago off Australia's remote northern coast. Charging neglect by the government in far-off Canberra, the 5,000 mostly Melanesian islanders are demanding self-rule, along with $3.5 billion in federal compensation. Their main gripe is that Australian-based fisheries are exploiting the waters surrounding the 15 islands, which include those whimsically named Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...