Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since that first week, I've begun to feel more at home at the State House. I spend much of my day tracking and researching legislation and have developed a strange fascination for the General Laws of Massachusetts. This spring, I never would have believed that reading laws on subjects ranging from raffles to operating a motor vehicle while wearing flip-flops could actually be interesting. Yet, now I find myself sitting at the dinner table, telling my family about laws that I never knew existed...
...lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power and the meaning. The evening's drama had begun, and each of the nearly 3,000 sheets of newsprint was tenderly guided into posterity in a marvelous alchemy of paper, ink, type and press. It echoes today...
...fact, Frist and the rest of the board had begun to fear for the survival of Columbia (1996 revenues: $19.9 billion), which has long been a lightning rod for critics of for-profit hospitals. Directors were worried that Scott's stonewalling of federal probes of Columbia's Medicare billings and home-health-care practices would only inflame the zeal of investigators and prosecutors and make a face-saving settlement impossible. And Columbia, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., was reportedly exploring a merger with Tenet Healthcare of Santa Barbara, Calif., the country's second largest hospital company. That deal would...
...King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter of one of America's most prominent cultural myths. It owns one of the most prodigiously popular "brands" on earth, one whose potential to generate revenue may have only just begun to be tapped. The market's elasticity will be tested by the new 330-seat Elvis Presley's Memphis, a theme restaurant and nightclub that opened last week in Memphis (opening act: folksinger Jewel, "the kind of entertainer," an EPE spokesman maintained, "Elvis would have selected were he alive today...
...tracing calls they made from Brooklyn to Hamas members. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports there are plenty of indications that Hamas may indeed be branching out. "Hamas has traditionally kept its battle at home and aimed only at Israelis," says Hamad. "In the last year, though, Hamas activists have begun to talk about hitting American targets as well." The reason: U.S. financial support of Yasser Arafat. Hamas sees him as a corrupt traitor who is selling out Palestinian interests to the Israelis. Hamas continues to deny any link to the apparent Brooklyn plot. But Palestinian security officials think...