Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action. More than two years of brutal civil war have demonstrated that talk alone is not enough. "We need practical measures if we are not going to plunge into the abyss," warned a U.N. official last week. That may prove an understatement. For many Burundians, the plunge has already begun...
With the proliferation of sensational murder trials and acquittal spectacles, many Americans have begun to assume that money simply buys justice. When combined with overall distrust and disappointment with the legislative and executive branches of government, such cynicism threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our political system. Even worse, it creates a vicious cycle of disillusionment--people withdraw from engaging with dysfunctional systems, which in turn become even less responsive as those dissatisfied with them entirely give up on changing or influencing them...
...begun a national search for a new Assistant Dean of Freshmen who will join the FDO this June...
...have already begun to come together. Students who once considered themselves apolitical have in-volved themselves in the political fray. Several students from the University of Massachusetts organized a student aid rally at Government Center in November, and we College Democrats were there to give our support...
Companies have begun to include diversity among their top criteria for measuring success. Price Waterhouse has a new diversity index, Littlejohn says. Likewise, Merrill Lynch awards bonuses to vice presidents on the basis of eight criteria, one of which is recruitment and retention of minorities, according to Business Week...