Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Also, to avoid a fiscal disaster similar to the crisis the state suffered in its last bookkeeping year, the budget would mandate that the governor impound money if state revenues start to decline unexpectedly, said Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern, a member of the conference committee...
...Honolulu neighborhood is seedy, the building rundown and the second-story room bleak. When a drug user comes in, drops a dirty needle into a plastic bucket and receives a fresh sterile syringe and needle in exchange, no name is given, no questions are asked. This is the start of the nation's first state- approved program for providing addicts with clean needles in the hope of curtailing the spread of AIDS. Under the two-year pilot project, an addict can swap a used needle for a new one, supplied by the nonprofit Life Foundation, up to five times...
...inconvenient; the occupier controls every detail. The Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security agency, can arrange a thousand favors to ease the way. They might come to an unemployed university graduate, for example, and say, "Why suffer? We can make you a teacher." In return the Shin Bet will start by asking something very easy: "We just need the names of your neighbors." By degrees the collaborator is drawn deeper into the web. If he tries to retreat, ^ the Israelis say, "We will expose you as a collaborator." It is widely believed in Nablus that Shin Bet agents have given...
...continues. "Then they start the interrogation. They make you very, very tired, physically and mentally. You forget everything outside after a time. You are utterly alone. There are two of them, and they play good guy and bad guy, the bad guy slapping you and spitting on you. You wonder, 'Where does he get so much spit from?' They dig at your genitals with a boot or a stick. Sometimes they tie you to a pipe so that you cannot stand or sit or kneel and leave you that way for days...
...that President Corazon Aquino took in the headlines with astonishing equanimity. On a recent morning in Manila, seated across from me in the calm of her office, the President confessed that she only read the front pages of eight papers. Her explanation was vintage Cory: "I want to start out the day feeling very positive and confident...