1.   The city began its life as a remote border outpost.

2.   The city then began a search that continues today.

3.   It was many years before the city began to treat its sewage.

4.   The city began building a defensive wall around its borders.

5.   The city began an aggressive campaign to encourage recycling.

6.   The city has begun to westernize.

7.   The city began to light up, skyscrapers loomed beyond the walls like neon pillars against the dusk.

8.   And the cities began to fail economically.

9.   And the city has begun marketing itself under a new nickname, promoting its conductors as tourist attractions in the Musical Metropolis Munich.

10.   And yet, now that the city has finally begun the laborious job of dredging its internal waterways, who is complaining?