Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thailand the government has negotiated a $17.2 billion International Monetary Fund bailout that will force it to raise taxes, cut its budget and rein in the worst abuses in its out-of-control financial system. The IMF has also stepped in with new loans for the Philippines, and has begun putting together what could be a $15 billion rescue package for Indonesia...
...Soros wants to put more Western publications in Russian libraries and hook up more schools and hospitals to the Internet, projects that Russian officials have begged Washington to fund. He plans to set up desperately needed training programs for business managers, lawyers and local government officials. And Soros has begun consulting with U.S. health officials on funding tuberculosis treatment in Russia's provinces and decrepit prison system...
Flora and fauna are showing the impact of a hotter planet too. Animals that thrive in warmer climates, like the Edith's checkerspot butterfly in the American West, have begun to extend their range northward, while cold-loving creatures such as brook trout have vanished in some areas. Plants are pushing to higher latitudes and higher altitudes. Tropical diseases, including malaria and dengue fever, have begun to move into regions that were once too cold for their insect carriers...
...spending on energy research. He pointed out that many fuel-saving technologies, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, already exist, and other breakthroughs, like practical fuel cells that generate clean energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, are being put to greater use all the time. The government has already begun to jump start the alternative-energy industry by purchasing products like solar cells in bulk...
...bird was not a real bird, of course. It was a small plastic model that broke into song when its switch was thrown. Lately it had begun singing whenever it was jostled, and on this day it got jostled hard. Just moments before, the station's commander, Vasili Tsibliyev, had attempted to bring an unmanned cargo vessel in for a remote-control docking. When the ship was just a few yards from the station, it suddenly flew wide of the docking port, sideswiped one of the station's solar panels and slammed broadside into its Spektr science module. The collision...