Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tired cliche to describe the 1980s as the era of selfishness, ostentation and greed. Ever since Nancy Reagan undertook to redecorate the White House and purchase new china while the rest of the country suffered the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, word has been out that Greed...
...undertook an investigation of those librarians who objected to spying on bookworms of Slavic origin. After all, weren't the librarians dupes of the communist threat, making waves so that the FBI couldn't get vital intelligence from library circulation records...
...babies. The air was powdery. Many streets had gaping fissures. Few residents could get any idea of the extent of what had happened. People milled about, as an observer put it, "like speechless idiots." Beyond view, the injured and trapped began to cry out, and gradually the able-bodied undertook rescues...
...derived from a soil fungus found in Japan. Starzl first learned of the drug in 1986 at a meeting in Helsinki. Other researchers had dismissed it because in studies using dogs it caused severe bleeding and other problems. But Starzl believed the reaction occurred in dogs alone and undertook a graduated series of experiments on several other animals, from rats to baboons. These tests were encouraging, and in February 1989 Starzl tried the drug on Robin Ford, a 26- year-old secretary who was in danger of rejecting her third liver. After two weeks of FK-506 treatments, she recovered...
...Sandinistas undertook to wipe out illiteracy, and for a while they almost did. But the voracious military budget swiftly eroded the gains, and by 1985 illiteracy had shot up to 30%. Children lucky enough to go to school often lug their own desk and chair from home to class...