11.   After the pharmaceutical and farm programs are dealt with, even tougher fights will begin over such pet Democratic programs as education and such GOP favorites as defense.

12.   All things considered, Barney and Big Bird might have an easier time than their media bosses Thursday as the legislative battle begins over federal funding for public broadcasting.

13.   Demolition began over the weekend in Blue Ash.

14.   Even as college programs were gearing up this year, several large digital effects companies were reeling after an industry shake-up that began over the summer.

15.   He dreams of starting a new family with Belva and her children, and beginning over.

16.   He hoped to have something solid when the Senate reconvened, he said, with depositions beginning over the weekend and concluding by Monday.

17.   His comeback story began over the summer, when he submitted himself to a rigorous conditioning regimen.

18.   How long before the arguments would begin over the impact of a retreat from our resolve?

19.   Immediately, debate began over whether to impose new taxes or cut the government subsidy.

20.   In one training exercise that began over the weekend, several companies of military engineers crept carefully down roads that have been strewn with mock mines and booby traps.