Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, much of the group's support was derived from backers of rent control, an initiative begun in 1970 and struck down by state-wide referendum last November...
...island's east side. At about 8 p.m. they spotted a girl walking alone on a well-lighted stretch of road lined with storefronts and homes. The 12-year-old elementary school student had walked five minutes from her home to buy a notebook for school, which had begun just three days earlier...
...that he's well on his way to doing precisely what he was hired to do. Shortly after taking over, Spindler brought costs under control by laying off 2,100 of Apple's 13,000 employees. He broke with tradition by licensing Apple technology to outside firms that have begun manufacturing a wave of low-cost Apple clones, which could help the company by attracting cost-conscious buyers and increasing market share. And last year he began shifting production to the new Power Macintosh line of computers, a tricky task that involves switching over to new suppliers and parts while...
With a cease-fire in prospect for the whole country, the allies have begun to rethink how many troops will be needed to police an actual peace agreement. Last week Defense Secretary Perry scaled back previous Pentagon estimates. He said the so-called NATO Implementation Force may need only 50,000 rather than 70,000 on the ground, of whom 15,000, not 25,000, would be American. French Defense Minister Millon is to arrive in Washington this week to begin talks on how to provide political direction to the soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping force. France is leaning toward...
...advertisements featuring a male couple in Out and the Advocate, the nation's two most prominent gay magazines. Meanwhile, Avis and National Car Rental have dropped the additional-driver fees they used to charge same-sex couples who live together. And all around the U.S., mainstream tour operators have begun hawking gay-only packages for everything from cruises to a ski week in Aspen...