Word: biennially
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...former British colonies, she was working quietly "behind the scenes," as one aide put it, to tighten the ties that still bind those nations. She held private talks with each of the 36 heads of government who had assembled in New Delhi for the Commonwealth's seventh biennial meeting...
...wonder cars were on display last week at the biennial Tokyo Motor Show, which has become an international showplace for the auto of the future. Said James Murphy, American Motors' manager of advance planning and electronics, who traveled from Detroit to see what Japan had to offer: "This is the best auto show in the world...
...remainder of the initial funds, officials said, will support the first two years of operating expenses for the fellowships, as well as the first in a series of biennial international health symposia scheduled to alternate between Tokyo and Boston beginning next year...
...meeting was marred by the assassination of Issam Sartawi, the P.L.O. delegate, in a hotel lobby Sunday morning. The gunman escaped. Sartawi's presence in Albufeira had been a contentious issue. If all had gone according to plan, the Socialists would have held their 16th biennial congress in Sydney, Australia. But last February, at Brandt's request, Portuguese Socialist Leader Mario Scares extended a formal invitation to the P.L.O. to send an observer. The Australian Socialists, led by newly elected Prime Minister Robert Hawke, objected strenuously, since they did not want to give the impression that they were...
...adjust for any errors has all the clarity and precision of a Jackson Pollack canvas. In a great many courses each term, either the classrooms or the teaching staffs prove too small to accommodate the students who show up for the first lectures. The result is by now a biennial ritual: the helter-skelter of relocations and the anxiety of lotteries...