In a recent interview, Mrs. Burford defended her tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency, citing the beginning of the program to clean up toxic waste.
Michalis Sarris, the Cypriot finance minister who negotiated Cyprus's bailout agreement with international creditors, resigned on Tuesday, citing the beginning of a government inquiry into the collapse of the country's banking industry.
Amis, asked to name McEwan's greatest achievement, said, "The first two hundred pages of 'Atonement.' " Fenton cited "the beginning of 'Enduring Love.' " Strawson said bluntly, "Ian is essentially a short-story writer".
Some of the "scientific" passages he cites at the beginning of each story are outdated science or junk science or even made-up science.
Fact: Given that Tomlinson, in the same article, cites the recorded temperature series, beginning in 1850, and the palaeoclimate reconstructions of the past 2,000 years, he evidently knows that this too is bunkum.
Sitti cites the example of ZAO Begun in Russia, which Google tried to buy for $140 million before it was blocked by the Russian government, as evidence that language can be a powerful differentiator on the Web.
He cites the chemical institute where he began his career: The institute, which employed scores of skilled technicians, was auctioned off for just $200,000.
It was Mr. Sharon's visit there four years ago that Palestinians cite as the beginning of this intifada.
She explored the dark alleyways of revenge, like the examples cited in the beginning of this article.
The nearly $3 billion I.P.O. of Netscape, a company you helped found, has been cited as the beginning of the 1990s tech bubble.
