Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first step on Wednesday night, Aug. 12, a sort of out-of-town opening for the performances that would follow. He tried out a lawyer's redacted version of a confession, not on Hillary but on a friend whose reviews he could trust. He said the relationship had begun during the 1995 government shutdown; it strayed across the line, and it made him ashamed. What really worried him, now that he had to face the grand jury, was how he would prepare Hillary for the next four days...
...hear NASA's detractors tell it, Glenn is manifestly unfit for space travel of any kind. Flying into orbit more than a third of a century after he last made the trip, more than a dozen years after most people his age have begun retiring, and only months after the death of fellow Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard illustrated the frailties of even the most resilient flesh, is, they argue, at best showboating and at worst reckless...
...newfound willingness to bargain is even more likely to be found at colleges generally less successful than Yale and Stanford in attracting the most qualified students. Many highly competitive schools have begun to use a thinly disguised form of merit scholarship to land prized applicants. If your family income is not low enough to warrant a need-based scholarship but your daughter is seen as something of an academic catch, she may well be offered an additional stipend to make her decision easier. Don't hesitate...
...seen the change in every segment of society: blacks, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics," says Marian Willinger, director of SIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a co-author of the JAMA study. Much of the credit goes to a public-health campaign begun in 1994 under the slogan Back to Sleep. But not everyone has got the message. Those who are still more likely to place their infants on their stomachs include mothers ages 20 to 29, African Americans in the inner city and families who live in Middle Atlantic or Southern states...
Movie pirates have found a new format in which to load their ill-gotten wares: the video-compact disc, also known as VCD. Popular with Asian counterfeiters for a year or so, the VCD, which resembles the digital videodisc but offers lower-quality images, has begun hitting the U.S., with boots of Deep Impact and Armageddon now available on the black market in Los Angeles. The discs, which can be played on a DVD machine, are going for as much as $200 each...