And since helping those people identify themselves before they get into trouble with alcohol is easier than treating alcoholism, the institute has begun a groundbreaking preventive program called Rethinking Drinking.
But Mr. Descoings set about transforming the school when he arrived in 1996, reconfiguring a deeply French institution in the image of an American university, courting foreign students and professors, enlarging the student body and beginning a groundbreaking affirmative-action policy.
Recently, we have begun a groundbreaking research trial involving more than 300 cognitively healthy volunteers from these unfortunate families.
Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content, and settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent.
Construction began after a groundbreaking ceremony on December 9 , 1969 when Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe, District Mayor Walter Washington, and Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel tossed the first spade of dirt at Judiciary Square.
It began as a groundbreaking film, turned into a relic that people saw as horribly dated but has now become a sometimes camp sometimes poignant record of a time and place when depicting gay people openly on screen (however self-hating) was revolutionary.
The effort was begun with a groundbreaking report in 2001 by the National Human Rights Commission, which named at least 74 government officials involved in a campaign of torture and disappearances against suspected leftists during the so-called Dirty War from the late 1960's into the early 1980's.
TOKYO, Wednesday, Aug. 8 — The two Koreas announced Wednesday morning that they would hold a summit meeting later this month, the first since a groundbreaking meeting in 2000 began an ongoing reconciliation process on the Korean peninsula.
But mindful of the anticipated lean times for the arts, the company began an $18 million capital campaign along with the groundbreaking for the theater last fall.
This is how Dr. David Michaels, a leading epidemiologist and former U.S. government scientist, begins a chapter in his seminal and groundbreaking book, Doubt Is Their Product.
