Word: biannual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four weeks ago, at exactly the two thirds point of the school year, my six-person roomming group engaged in its biannual migration. As part of some "tacit" agreement I supposedly made in September, I was cruelly expropriated from my secluded single down the hall and relocated into a double directly off the common room...
Harvard will soon have a new biannual Hispanic publication, "Salsa Magazine...
...with the exodus from Cambridge will come the biannual transportation crisis, with Harvard students forced to discover new and creative ways to make the two-and-a-half hour trek to New Haven...
...September 1981, Huntington gave the keynote address to the Political Science Association of South Africa's biannual conference. Huntington, of course, is a well-known scholar, and director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs. His best-known thesis, drastically simplified, is that rulers in developing countries do well to limit popular demands on government. Too much participation, he argues, allows diverse groups to express sometimes-conflicting wishes and can hurt rulers' ability to enforce stability. This makes it difficult to carry out policies required for economic growth and national integration...
...mounted spraying campaigns that have curbed the malady by attacking the carrier black flies. But in many areas the insects developed a resistance to the sprays. Enter ivermectin. The drug works by attacking the primary cause of the disease, the worms. Although it does not kill the invading parasites, biannual doses of ivermectin can prevent them from reproducing. Predicts Halfdan Mahler, director-general of WHO: "Ivermectin will revolutionize the way countries face this debilitating disease...