Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start bottom-up," says Hahrie C. Han '97, vice president of PBHA. "We begin by building relationships within the community and then structuring programs around them...
Launching butter pats across the Union, enjoying sex in the Widener stacks and screaming across the Yard the night before exams begin are all time-honored Harvard traditions...
...about whether they should join the interdependent world or hang back in a nationalistic fortress. The Chinese leaders often distrust and disagree with Washington's arguments. They point out, for example, that the U.S. is by far the world's largest seller of armaments and is about to begin delivering 150 F-16 fighters to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a province of China. Last week the Chinese even had mixed feelings about Clinton's extension of MFN. "Clinton has made a wise decision," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Cui Tiankai, but he added that the Chinese dislike having this issue...
...topsy-turvy response reflects the fact that Iraq won't begin exporting oil until July, when gas-guzzling American vacationers galore will be hitting the road. Nor will the 700,000 bbl. a day that Baghdad will be allowed to sell to raise hard currency for food and medicine amount to more than a 1% boost in worldwide oil production. Nonetheless, experts say Iraqi oil should help lower U.S. pump prices by midsummer. Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, estimates that gas prices could fall as much as 10' per gal. before the end of the driving season...
...trend of ozone depletion is like turning around a huge ocean liner," Lemonick says. "You can reverse the engines, but it still takes a while to change the ship's direction." If this trend is sustained, scientists say the Antarctic ozone hole, first detected in the 1980s, could begin to disappear in about 10 years. -->