Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they concentrate for now on the tactical move of simply growing bigger, both organizations are also trying to project a new, more cooperative image. Moved in part by a Democratic President's enthusiasm for reforms like charter schools and tougher teacher standards, union leaders have in the past year begun to at least pay lip service to ideas once considered heretical. The shift was detectable last February, when the new head of the N.E.A, Bob Chase, made an astounding admission before the National Press Club in Washington: "The fact is that in some instances we have used power...to protect...
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...
...million things at once swirl around. It's been six months at least since I've been home for more than two days. It's fair to say Cambridge really has begun to feel like a home at last, perhaps oddly more so for me, having been born here. T.S. Eliot '09 said, "We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time...
DETROIT: General Motors' damage estimate Tuesday was staggering indeed -- second-quarter earnings plunged 81 percent from a year ago. But the pair of strikes that have left the world's largest carmaker with no parts to make cars with have only begun to wreak their havoc on GM's business. "Lost market share is going to be more of a problem for GM than ever," says TIME Detroit bureau chief Ron Stodghill. "The summer is a strong buying season, and GM dealers don't have enough cars. In the auto business, once you lose a customer...
...only a matter of time before HIV found a way to thwart protease inhibitors, the key to combination therapy. Researchers reported the first case of transmission of a strain of the virus that is resistant to all four protease inhibitors. At the moment, combination therapy begun soon after hiv infection is the best hope for keeping...