It was then, he added, that his agency began to forecast a 60 percent increase.

The agency also began to show renewed interest in social policy.

The agency, using public and private funds, began to support many of the clubs.

If the owners vote to accept, free agency will begin Friday.

The real issue is that the owners have been looking bad (yet making more money) since free agency began.

The agency began slipping a few days behind last May, and is now running about six weeks late.

The 1997 figure is the lowest since the agency began keeping records 30 years ago.

The agency began making changes only after the conditions were brought to its attention by union officials.

The total was the highest since the agency began surveillance for the disease in 1982.

Only in recent months have Federal agencies begun gathering information about the practice.