Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush could start by releasing statementscalling for free access to information "except ininstances of demonstrable and substantial publicnecessity," as well as recommending thatinformation policy decisions be made jointly withCongress, the plan says...
...proposed $30 million fund, called Medical Science Partners, will give "seed money" to promising but potentially risky Med School research projects. Harvard expects that the program, funded entirely by private sources, will start awarding grants this year...
Since its formal recognition last November, the union has been preparing for the upcoming contract negotiations. Next week the support staff will elect 70 or more representatives for the negotiations; University officials say Harvard has not yet chosen a formal negotiating team. Both sides say they hope negotiations will start by the end of February...
...Another decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...
...North Koreans expressed little interest in a summit but suggested that the Prime Ministers hold talks on such long-standing Northern demands as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula. The Roh government would have preferred to start discussions on less contentious topics, but went along with the Pyongyang proposal. Said Roh: "There are changes in the North that cannot be easily seen. I think we will have a summit meeting in the not too distant future...