I started conducting research as a second-year student in college.
The second began in the afternoon, when police started conducting house-to-house searches for weapons and gunmen.
Barenboim started conducting professionally in 1962, first in Israel and then in Australia with the Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras.
He wasn't virtuosic: the musicality didn't show out as much as it would when he started conducting with us.
Alan Adler, a spokesman for G.M., said the company started conducting internal tests in 1997 to determine a vehicle's stability.
They also started conducting market research surveys at the theater to determine who their audience really was.
Having started conducting studies relatively late, at 27, he has always felt a need to catch up.
When banks first started conducting internal investigations at the behest of regulators two years ago, they figured the potential penalties would be manageable, according to bank officials.
"In the same way that I'd started conducting the orchestra," he said, "I thought to myself: How hard could it be?" Harder than he thought, he confessed.
Instead of referring patients to radiologists, the doctors started conducting their own imaging -- and drawing insurance reimbursements for each of those patients.
Often, they formally convene for just days or weeks each year, although more activist congresses have started conducting investigations and making proposals year round.
