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...biannual rite of shopping period has begun...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein and Jonathan A. Lewin, S | Title: Students Begin Shopping Frenzy | 9/19/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard Yale meet for both squads, as well as being an important dual meet and essential tune-up for the Heps, also serves as a qualifier for the biannual Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet to be held in England this summer...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: M., W. Track Throttle Yale | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Preventing such a tragedy is supposed to be the main goal of the governing body of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which is meeting in Geneva this week. These biannual sessions usually come and go without attracting much attention, but the plight of the tiger has put a spotlight on the delegates this time around. Last September cites warned China and Taiwan, two countries where the illicit trade in tiger and rhino parts is prevalent, to take steps to shut down their black markets or face possible trade sanctions. Both nations claim to have curbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Tigers on the Brink | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...then there was the "Linguistics Lunch" my junior year, held once a week in Eliot House, right after Intro. to Indo-European. At the Department's biannual wine and-cheese parties, it's become a tradition for the undergraduates to put on a humorous five-minute skit satirizing the department (or, more likely these days, the administration...

Author: By Ronald A. Fein, | Title: Why We Should Save Linguistics | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...What you saw today was the ending of the former U.S. policy of trade insanity," said a senior Administration official. "That is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." The meeting was the first of the biannual summits required under the trade agreement signed in Tokyo last summer by Clinton and former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. The pact aimed at trimming Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., which has jumped to a near record $60 billion. Last summer's agreement called for "objective criteria" for measuring progress, and the sticking point ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton to Tokyo: No Deal | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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