Word: started
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publications are as ambitious as Wallpaper in soliciting diverse submissions, but a desire to represent student voices previously silent on campus motivated students to start the third mainstream literary publication, The Harvard Quarterly...
SOMEDAY the press will understand. Then everyone can understand that not all Asian-Americans are academic superstars. Then they will start seeing Asian-Americans as individual people instead of as members of a mythical "model minority...
...nothing like a random sample of the population of their native countries. Those people who are willing to consciously pull up stakes and move across the ocean to improve their lots are obviously exceptionally ambitious. This helps explain the extraordinary proportion of first-generation immigrants of all races who start their own businesses. Education and self-improvement are likely to be important values to such people...
...Communists, he notes, "we got 13 marks per ticket in subsidies. Tickets cost patrons only 1.50 marks. Now we are already up to 4 to 8 marks, and we don't know from day to day if we will continue getting our subsidy. If not, we'll have to start charging the 30 to 40 deutsche marks they charge in the West. What kind of audience will we have then...
Last week's agreement between the two countries to start immediate negotiations to replace the East German ostmark with the West German deutsche mark provided the starkest reminder yet of the downside of unification. The immediate aim of the monetary union is to stanch the East German stampede to the West, which continues at the rate of 2,000 a day. The theory is that if Easterners were more confident about their country's economic future, they would be less prone to flee. The first step in that process is to replace East Germany's funny money with West Germany...