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...even though the Crimson did not prepare for it, the race is still an important benchmark in the season. Princeton beat MIT by 22 seconds earlier this spring, a slightly shorter margin that Harvard...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Yawn, M. Crew Zaps MIT | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

...Japan as Washington called for "emergency consultations" with Tokyo following the release of figures showing yet another drop in the share of Japan's semiconductor market held by foreign companies. For the first three quarters of 1993, the foreigners' share has fallen and has been stuck below a benchmark 20% share negotiated by the two governments. The Administration wants to fight for the U.S. computer-chip industry, but it does not want trade friction to topple Japan's fragile reform coalition government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week December 26-January 1 | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...task force also called for the adoption of system-wide benchmarks by June 1994 to make sure students have mastered basic skills by certain grade levels. Students who are not at the proper benchmark levels, which are still to be determined, will be enrolled in remedial courses...

Author: By Christopher Ortega, | Title: Schools May Eliminate Tracking | 10/26/1993 | See Source »

...downplay the show's racy content. The network sent its affiliates two episodes in addition to the pilot (neither segment has as much explicit material) and got Bochco to trim 15 seconds from the first show's lovemaking scene. ABC's Harbert says that scene is the "high benchmark" for what the series will allow; half the episodes, he promises, will have no nudity at all. "Given that our schedule is so dominated by family programming, such as Roseanne and Home Improvement, we felt there is room for a show that stretches the boundaries, so long as we inform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bochco Under Fire | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Finally, in late fiscal 1993, foreign stockprices resumed their strong climb. For the year,the benchmark Morgan Stanley EAFE-Free Index,which measures foreign equity performance,returned 18.25 percent, nearly seven points higherthan the Standard & Poor's 500 index of domesticstocks...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: For Meyer and Friends, A Good Year at Last | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

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