Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alter its relationship with the District of Columbia by assuming responsibility for tax collection, prisons, courts and roads as part of a multi-million dollar effort to rescue the District from its longstanding financial woes. TIME?s Ann Blackman notes that the idea has energized Washington residents who had begun to think that the District could not manage to solve its intractable problems: ?There?s a chance to make the city into the gem it should be, instead of the dump it is now. The potholes from last year have yet to be repaired, and are now filling up with...
...hard to get him to delve more personally. But especially since Jennifer's birth, friends say, he has begun to reflect more on his life and what he might end up contributing. He speaks of the promise of computing, not just in business terms but in social ones. "Everyone starts out really capable," he says. "But as you grow and turn curious, either you get positive feedback by finding answers or you don't, and then this incredible potential you have is discouraged. I was lucky. I always had a family and resources to get more and more answers. Digital...
With the threat of possible eviction looming large, many tenants have already begun moving out of their apartments...
...those are the problems of people who have begun to imagine that they may have the time to work them out. For healthy people, the future is elastic; it stretches before them to whatever length their peace of mind requires. In 1996 a lot of people with AIDS began to find some flexibility in their own dealings with time. "I don't think about the future past a manageable point," insists Caleb Schwartz. "I stopped doing that the day I got the news I was positive." But ask him bluntly whether he expects to be alive a few years from...
...might have gone through the past few years differently. AIDS encouraged a lot of clean living. People started to take their health seriously. There were vows of chastity, some of them kept. Among gays, the epidemic also helped forge a solidarity, with implications that have only just begun to work their way through the larger culture...