Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control the game," Harvard Coach Sue Caples said. "Frequently, teams crowd and pack everything in. We opened the field up, made back passes and made them chase when we were in possession...
...Harvard's got good stickwork," Bowman said. "Char Joslin is dominating out there. We tried to get on her and she still took control of the second half...
...wooing has heated up lately because Bush has angered conservatives by making concessions to Democrats on clean air, the contras and gun control. Unlike Ronald Reagan, whose ties to the right were so strong that he could occasionally ignore conservatives, Bush routinely courts the right...
Repeated attempts to control the ivory trade have failed. The current system, set up under CITES in 1986, requires ivory-producing nations to adopt export quotas intended to safeguard existing elephant populations. In addition, each tusk in international trade must be covered by an export permit and marked with a unique serial number, which is recorded in a computer in Cambridge, England. Theoretically, that number allows nations to trace the tusk as it passes from country to country in trade. But many quotas have been ill-considered or ignored, falsified export documents have been discovered in numerous nations, and corrupt...
Until now, the ivory trail has flourished under the less than watchful eye of the CITES secretariat. In 1985 when the organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials struck with Singapore, Burundi and other nations, under which undocumented ivory could be registered, moved a mountain of ill-gotten ivory into the marketplace...