It kicked off with remarks from Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights leader and one of the organizers of the March on Washington.
Yesterday, it kicked off with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who addressed the company's latest scandals, including Cambridge Analytica, election meddling, and fake news.
Under the new system, immigration policy would select immigrants on the basis of their skills or their existing family ties in the U.S. It kicked off a "brain drain" from the world's most populous countries, India and China, which both had governments that were less than 20 years old at the time.
It kicked off a firestorm of criticism from the Boston elite.
Six weeks later, it kicked off in the UK with £164,000 from 60 venues.
But by the turn of the century, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era that it kicked off, that government had been transformed from a small, clientelistic one that awarded positions on the basis of patronage into a much larger professionalized and merit-based bureaucracy, according to Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay.
It took them two or three weeks to come back to me and say yes, but it all kicked off from there".
"It felt more like a pre-season game to start with but then we got the goal, then the second and it all kicked off from there.
— DUNCAN IRVING New Zealand, in an all-black strip favored by the rugby team (alas, no pregame Haka), kicks off from left to right at an eerily quiet and vacant St. James Parkk.
"It all just kicked off from there.
