Word: started
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...personal feelings about the possibility of a draft. "In this case, I don't feel like the U.S. is under any threat at all," said Benjamin D. Bernard '92. "Morally, we're in the wrong. I would definitely resist it if [a war in the Middle East] were to start tomorrow," he said...
...like this but we have no set agenda this fall, everything is pretty much touch and go." Trelstead said that although this year's efforts are less "planned out," he is pleased with the recycling efforts around campus, adding that "the recycling program has gotten off to a better start than last year especially with the cans and bottles drive...
...Their quarterback was awesome," said Kwiatkowski, a somewhat excitable sort. "Great move to start that kid. He's a good...
...scheme ripped from the pages of John le Carre. Not long after the end of World War II, Democratic Party elders tapped a malleable Yalie and gave him orders for life: move to Texas, infiltrate the Republican Party and start a long, quiet climb to power. His mission: destroy the G.O.P. from within. Mastering the finer points of mesquite barbecue and duck-blind repartee, the spy rose through the ranks, performing minor tasks for party leaders along the way. Years later, just as planned, the deep-cover agent finally became President...
Nobody said it was going to be easy, but fresh hindrances now seem certain to hold up the start of formal negotiations on the "new South Africa" until well into next year. Last week, citing difficulties in repatriating 20,000 exiled members and setting up local branches, the African National Congress postponed its planned Dec. 16 national conference six months. The gathering will elect a new executive body and is expected to elevate Nelson Mandela to the A.N.C. presidency to replace the ailing Oliver Tambo. But government officials complained that the A.N.C.'s organizational problems could make it difficult...