Word: biannual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union is happy with the department's decision to eliminate the biannual physical stress test, which the police felt increased insecurity over their jobs (if an officer didn't pass the test he was removed from the force). "I think it did something for the morale of the police department and the morale of the people in the health services," Chafin says. Responding to union complaints of three years ago, the department has also improved the quality of the equipment officers use. Chafin claims the new emergency equipment and a new fleet of police cruisers with alley lights and better...
Contract negotiations between the University and the Harvard Police Association broke down at the wire last July when the two sides differed over what the police administration meant when it ordered "biannual physical examinations" for the officers. The union's dictionary defined the key word as meaning "twice a year"; Harvard's edition read "once every two years." It took until December--almost a full year after the union's first contract expired--before both sides patched up their semantic differences and signed a new pact...
Next year's Committe on Undergraduate Education (CUE) course guide may be divided into a biannual publication which will include two to three times as many courses as this year's guide contained, its editor-in-chief said yesterday...
...sharpest debates occured in early June, when the union discovered the contract--which they were then on the verge of signing--called for biannual physical examinations for policemen. The Police Association argued that the twice-yearly checkups were an effort to force older patrolmen off the force, while University administrators claimed the once-every-two-years checkups were a routine precaution. It all boiled down to semantics (biannual can mean twice a year or once every two years, depending on your dictionary), but the contract still hasn't been signed...
Exam periods, the season in which any sort of diversion comes as a welcome relief from the grind, have never been rich in entertainment for the dizzy Harvard student. But one outlet for diversion which can be trusted each biannual drought is WHRB, 95.3 on your dial, which this year brings better-than-ever orgies right into the bedrooms of anxious and dissipated students on every edge of campus. Ranging from the traditional Arturo Toscanini Orgy to the sublime Bach Cantatas Orgy to the eclectic Northern New Jersey Orgy, featuring the mellifluous tones of (no, not the Jersey turnpike) some...