The programs have begun producing future major leaguers.
Locally, several peak-period pricing programs have begun.
In some of Salvador's deadliest slums, he said, new policing programs had begun to lower homicide rates.
And, in the past few years, the programs have begun to play the kind of elegant, creative chess once thought to be the exclusive province of humans.
And programs have begun even in Iran, of all places, which offers needle exchange and methadone; its program of giving prisoners methadone is now the world's largest.
But wherever such programs have begun, they have achieved only limited support from the Department of Justice, which has not made street crimes a priority.
The Clinton campaign made its announcement around 6 40 p.m., shortly after the network news programs had begun on the East Coast.
He then dismissed the criticism, saying the large-scale government intervention in the markets and the expansion of social welfare programs had begun under his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.
In some areas, Afghan and American programs have begun to involve communities in local budgeting, but progress is slow and it would probably take several years to expand it to higher levels of government.
He said that over the last few months, Firestone had instituted new quality assurance programs, had begun efforts to educate the public on tire maintenance, and had introduced a marketing and advertising campaign called Making It Right.
