Word: begun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pork contains at least twice as much fat as does a piece of turkey or chicken. Pork is not a white meat, no matter how much "producers want to distance themselves from beef, which they perceive as a loser," notes Liebman. The rehabilitation of real food may have begun, say health experts, but it still has a long...
Hollywood has begun to cash in on the undercurrent of women's rage at men. In Fatal Attraction, currently the nation's top box-office draw, Actress Glenn Close enacts the ultimate female revenge fantasy. While Close's character eventually reveals herself as a murderous psycho, she has a number of exchanges with her married lover early in the film that hit home with every woman ever scorned ( "I woke up. You weren't here. I hate that"). Says one Washington woman who saw the film with two girlfriends: "Afterward, we talked about all the boyfriends we ever had wanted...
...little premature to label the Harvard women's volleyball team the surprise of the 1987-'88 season--since the season has barely begun--but the Crimson is already turning heads and turning back opponents...
Unemployment, new taxes and rising prices may prove to be a combustible mixture. Privately, Hungarian officials say that the regime has begun bracing for strikes and protests. "Things just keep getting worse," says Tamas, 19, a blue jeans-clad vegetable seller in Budapest. "Everyone I know thinks there's going to be an explosion." The challenge for Hungary's rulers, as for Moscow's innovative Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, will be to contain such public discontent long enough for the economic reforms to bear fruit...
...most telling signs that sanctions against South Africa have not even begun to prove effective is that many black organizations that originally supported them have begun to change their position. To be sure, most such groups would firmly deny that they are retreating from the goal of punishing South Africa economically for its support of apartheid. For example, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country's largest labor federation, has called for even stronger "comprehensive" sanctions that would include a total embargo on trade, investment and travel involving South Africa. COSATU's rethinking on sanctions, however, is less...