Word: begun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some bipartisan support has begun to emerge for proposals that move us toward a fully-funded, privatized system. Unfortunately, defenders of the status quo have promulgated a series of myths that undermine efforts to reform the current system...
...several editorials about the lack of political motivation on campus, most of them arguing that a general air of apathy hangs over this place like a thick fog. But even more troubling than the state of political activism at Harvard is the sensation that this trend of apathy has begun, ever so insidiously, to creep into our classrooms...
...banks really do pose a threat to the public, then Canadian consumers should have long ago begun chaffing under the weight of this market structure. But they haven't. The reason is simple: the Canadian banking system is just better than that of the U.S. For example, service charges are lower in Canada than in the U.S. As a result, Canadian banks are forced to rely much more heavily on net interest income as a source of profits...
...major carriers are willing to lose money--lots of it--in the short run to drive off competition," says Slater. The department must wait 60 days before clipping any wings, and clearly Slater hopes the majors will back off before he has to start. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has begun an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices...
Polls indicate that more than 70 percent of voters support the Northern Ireland peace agreement, which must be approved in a May 22 referendum. The campaign, however, has just begun, and will clearly be nasty in the North. Peter Robinson, deputy leader of Ian Paisley's Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, called the agreement "the mother of all treachery." He also told TIME that should President Clinton visit the province to encourage support for the agreement, as has been proposed, "we will not give him a free hand to go around and do whatever he wants. He will be subject...