Word: started
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...first time since she wrested the party leadership from Edward Heath 15 years ago, Thatcher was shown to be vulnerable. In Paris she had celebrated the end of the cold war and the start of "a new era of Europe." Returning to London, the Prime Minister was determined that her own era, in its 12th year, would not end quite so soon. She was not ready to write her memoirs, Thatcher said, vowing to "fight on. I fight to win." But this time the Prime Minister found her troops deserting all around her. In the end, Thatcher, who had once...
...From the start, the academy sought to provide a supportive environment for Navajos, in contrast to public schools, where they were routinely treated as second-class students. But beyond that, according to headmaster Samuel Billison, the academy had a special mission: to educate young and gifted Navajos to be able to survive in the wider culture without losing their own. The school aimed to create a generation of Indian leaders who would understand the outside world but not envy...
...four Independents on the council--a loose coalition that usually opposes the policies of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) majority--complained that they did not have time to examine the compromise bill that was given to them moments before the meeting's scheduled start time. The interim freeze passed the council, 5-4, despite their objections...
...many would agree with General Powell when he says that, for now, questions of equity can't be allowed to stand in the way of the gulf mission. "When we decide to send the 82nd Airborne division or the First Cavalry division, they go," he explains. "We don't start saying, 'Well, let me check; we don't have enough blacks, or we have too many blacks.' " If bloodshed begins, however, there is sure to be a much louder debate over whose blood is shed...
...Shunju of some recently discovered notes on conversations between Hirohito and aides in 1946, in which he discussed his role prior to Pearl Harbor. "It was unavoidable for me as a constitutional monarch," he said, "to do anything but give approval to the Tojo Cabinet on the decision to start the war." Had he opposed the attack, the result most probably would have been a coup d'etat. The country would have been violently and pointlessly divided because in any case war was inevitable...