Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior tutor's job isn't through until almost July. After [faculty members] turn in the grades, our work has just begun," he says. "The senior tutors are the first people who have to get the administrative wheels greased the day after Labor...
Deutch well knows the impact of bad information. In 1993, in his previous job as Under Secretary of Defense, he himself received bogus Russian military secrets, Pentagon sources told Time. By then the CIA had finally begun to attach caveats to the reports that contained information from the double agents, but the labels were sometimes omitted or ignored by the customer. One such report on Russian antiaircraft capabilities, which made its way to the Pentagon in 1993, clearly warned that the CIA was suspicious about the veracity of its source. But Air Force officials, who considered the report valuable...
...part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that nature is just as important as nurture in determining how we think and behave as sexual beings. Neurobiologists have cataloged apparent differences in the way men's and women's brains process information and interpret facial expressions. Geneticists have begun sifting through tantalizing clues that sexual orientation--as opposed to sexual identity--may at least be partly inherited (see box). Yet the subject matter is so charged from an emotional, political and even religious perspective that evaluating all the various claims dispassionately can be very difficult...
...fact, extraconstitutional jockeying has already begun, and in connection with the most serious matter--control of Russia's nuclear weapons. Moscow sources told TIME that last Thursday the President's closest advisers convened an urgent meeting in the Kremlin. Among those present was Alexander Korzhakov, the former KGB officer who serves as Yeltsin's top bodyguard and crony. The gist of the meeting was that under no circumstance should the briefcase containing the codes for Russia's nuclear arsenal be transferred to Chernomyrdin. That briefcase is with Yeltsin in his hospital room. Korzhakov is one of the few people...
...tout these products, say industry analysts, is an additional $1 billion in sales for heartburn medications. "This is a blockbuster," says Paul Kelly, president of Silvermine Consulting Group, in Westport, Connecticut. "It's the most dramatic medical launch since Advil." Two acid blockers, Tagamet HB and Pepcid AC, have begun battling it out for market share, and two more--including the British colossus Zantac in over-the-counter form--will be joining the fray by next year...