Word: outset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration official, speaking on condition he not be identified, told the AP it has been apparent from the outset that Casey probably could not resume his duties, but top White House officials, including White House chief of staff Donald T. Reagan, have been reluctant to begin a search for a successor...
Freud, Marx and Einstein, raiders of thought and institutions at the outset of our century, are beginning to fade as influences on conduct. The relative universe of which Einstein brought news no longer frightens people into a sense of personal powerlessness. Marx has been discredited in public as the prophet of a future that works only at the expense of human self-regard. Freud one either takes or leaves: your age may think him a brilliant curiosity, an alchemist with style. In different ways, all three helped to persuade several generations that fate either was not in their hands...
...measure, which went into effect at the outset of the semester, was developed after many students and administrators complained last year about the volume of smoke, Singer said. An eight-member committee made up of students and administrators--both smokers and non-smokers--investigated the complaints and concluded that smoking should be restricted to the two foyers, each of which is approximately 100 square feet...
...board convened the next day in the Italianate boardroom personally designed and decorated by Paley. Wyman and other senior executives briefed the directors on CBS's prospects and strategy. The presentation was later described by some of those present as lackluster. But it contained a bombshell: at the outset Wyman asked the board to authorize continued negotiations with Coca-Cola over the purchase of CBS. By implication, that meant he had already held talks of some kind; a Coca-Cola spokesman later volunteered that "there was contact, but there was nothing of substance in those contacts...
...first Union artillery shells detonated at 1 p.m. Picnickers from Washington, society women in long dresses and their escorts in string ties and long black coats, watched from their hillside vantage point, eating fried chicken as they waited for the Federal troops to crush the Confederates. At the outset, this battle near the railhead called Manassas Junction went according to Northern expectations...