Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Thomann didn't know was the chain of events that had begun weeks earlier when a Carey campaign consultant, Martin Davis, approached a top Democratic fund raiser, Laura Hartigan, with the plan for the lopsided contribution swap. Hartigan, in turn, pressed Sullivan to find a big donor for the Carey campaign to carry out the D.N.C.'s part of the bargain. The Teamsters, meanwhile, kept their word, sending an initial $236,000 to Democratic parties in 35 states at the end of the month, according to court papers...
...groundwork for Yassin's release had begun the previous Friday, the day after the Mossad attack in Amman. According to an official privy to the proceedings, Hussein on Friday compelled the Israelis to acknowledge that the two Canadian passport holders were in fact Mossad agents. Asked whether Hussein threatened to cut off relations with Israel, with which he had made peace in 1994, a palace source replied, "It went beyond that...
...before the 1950s: Henry David Thoreau wrote, "some will have bad thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha." But the Beats' incorporation of koans into the phenomenon of "hip" made them de facto recruiters for a hardy group of Japanese Zen masters who had begun arriving on both coasts in the 1930s...
...example, one will end up with an answer of only 12 while standing before an extremely confident study of a male torso begun in (gasp) 1893. Fourteen, before the beautifully solemn portrait, "Girl with Bare Feet." And only 15 before the exhibition's first self-portrait, painted with expressive strokes in a restrained palette...
...other reason fund raisers have begun to see this plateau affect is that it's the culture of campaigning today...