Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind we're living through every day. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton have ended up conducting a public version of a private conversation we all have, about how to keep up, get fit, make money, do good and be ready for a future that we fear has already begun...
...welfare recipients actually do find jobs; how many really do starve in the streets? But there is no question about his political judgment. His decision has proved so popular that in Florida last week, Clinton ignored his criticisms of the welfare bill and instead simply boasted that he had begun the process of putting welfare recipients to productive work...
...mind breaks? It is the glimmer of belief that there might be an audience for movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard. "Much Ado showed Hollywood how successful and enjoyable a Shakespeare movie could be," says Lindsay Law, president of Fox Searchlight Pictures...
...coming right at its end, one would like to know what its plausible competitors are. In fact there aren't any. In 1969 McGraw-Hill brought out its five-volume Dictionary of Art, still useful but a mere dinghy in comparison with this dreadnought. The ur-art dictionary was begun in 1907 by two German scholars, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, but since the publication of its 37th volume in 1950, it has tried to do no more than issue occasional volumes of updates. Even that is a task comparable to repainting the Brooklyn Bridge with a nail-polish brush...
...second one (which came out after the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks had begun operation), the Ducks go to the junior world championships and battle Evil European Teams...