Word: biannual
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...Tuesday I went to the Coop for a biannual tradition: comparison shopping...
...politicians. His warm, internationally acclaimed films included Xala and Moolaadé, the story of a woman who tries to shield a group of girls from genital mutilation. A former dockworker and novelist, he turned to film at age 40 to reach Africa's largely illiterate masses and co-founded the biannual FESPACO film festival, called the Cannes of Africa...
...publishers and style professionals would be thunderous in their denouncement of such conformity, but they are its ideologues. Design Hotels-a group whose 142 member properties probably corner the world market in white furniture and puzzling chrome ornaments-compiles the raving apologia of academics and designers in its own, biannual journal (sample: "Hotels of the avant-garde are rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well as the StyleCity collection of travel...
...Tony Blair on Feb. 6 submitted to a very public interrogation. He has twice answered police questions--as a witness, not as a suspect--in Britain's so-called cash-for-honors affair, becoming the first serving Prime Minister to be grilled by the cops. But this was his biannual appearance before a top parliamentary committee, a set-piece occasion that always provides insights into government policy. This time, as the chief witness genially pointed out, one question alone sent members of Westminster's low-tech press corps scrambling to uncap their pens--a question that dominates politics in Britain...
...rectify that. Since he took over at the Treasury six months ago, the former Goldman Sachs CEO has made China the centerpiece of what will be his two-year run as the Administration's top economic policymaker. The December meeting in Beijing was the first of a series of biannual economic summits that are supposed to increase communication, with a specific focus on intermediate and longer-range economic issues. China's leaders "want to know that this relationship is being managed," explains Paulson during an interview in his ornate office at the Treasury Department. "It's important to them...