Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sour note turned so sweet so fast. While production, jobs, incomes and consumer spending soared in the U.S. last year, corporate profits fell. To be sure, they fell only 0.8%, but that result stood out like the proverbial uncertain trumpet in a triumphal march. By April, analysts had begun muttering about "profitless prosperity" when--bingo! Within days, company earnings reports for the first quarter of 1999 heralded what the government eventually calculated was the strongest profit rebound in four years...
...macho world of global soccer. Europeans, who cheer for female runners and skiers, have disparaged the women's game of football as a dainty imitation of the real thing. But with attitudes changing, and with the Yanks kicking their derrieres, soccer federations in Germany, Denmark and elsewhere have begun pouring money into their women's programs. This time federations have sent advance scouts and brought their teams over early to train...
Yardlings are led by Dean of Freshman ElizabethStudley Nathans. The former Duke Universityassociate dean has begun efforts to reformorientation week and first-year advising so thatstudents take better advantage of the resourcesavailable...
When the mini-van, or the train, or the taxi, or the bus or the magic carpet whisks you close to the wrought-iron gates of your new home, the journey will have only begun...
After the oil-price crash, Bush had begun looking for a bigger fish to swallow his little one. His "bail-out strategy," as he calls it now, was to have Spectrum bought out by a publicly traded company so his investors would have a shot at getting their money back. Texas-based Harken Oil & Gas (now known as Harken Energy Corp.) had been buying up troubled independents on the cheap, and Spectrum fit the profile. In one six-month period before the acquisition, Spectrum lost $402,000. It was $3 million in debt, with no hope of attracting a dollar...