Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fights have already started to break out over the dwindling supply. Two weeks ago, hundreds of Canadian fishermen blockaded a British Columbia port for several days to keep an Alaskan ferry from leaving. The reason for their protest? Alaskan trawlers were sweeping up the salmon that spawn in Canada's rivers. Now the Canadians are threatening to do to the salmon runs of Washington State what U.S. fishermen have done to theirs...
...this big stick business won't wash with the North. They're complaining ? quite reasonably, it seems ? that scheduling war games with 16,000 troops isn't exactly the best way to conduct the peace negotiations currently under way at Columbia University in New York...
...this big stick business won't wash with the North. They're complaining ? quite reasonably, it seems ? that scheduling war games with 16,000 troops isn't exactly the best way to conduct the peace negotiations currently under way at Columbia University in New York...
...Today's New York Times reports the paper has obtained internal Columbia documents detailing plans for a "total change in culture" that would include selling its home health care business, eliminating all employee cash-bonus programs, beefing up regulation enforcement and compliance among employees, and abandoning the profitable practice of selling interests in hospitals to its doctors. It sounds like the prescription of new CEO Dr. Thomas Frist ? on the job for just 12 days ? who's been trying to convince the feds that improprieties are exceptions at Columbia...
...Somalia. Meanwhile, South Korea's president today ousted half his cabinet, explaining the move as an effort to better manage economic policies and ensure fair presidential elections in December. Breakthroughs are not expected as North and South Korea sit down with China and the U.S. for talks, at Columbia University in New York, about lifting or easing economic sanctions against the North. TIME Seoul correspondent Stella Kim says that although the negotiations themselves and China's participation are a milestone, North Korea has withdrawn from talks at the last minute on three previous occasions...