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...team is presently working on developing an active sampler which would force air through a filter rather than base its measurements on passive gaseous diffusion. An active sampler would be more sensitive than its passive counterpart by collecting a good sample in less time, according to Koutrakis...
Washington's flirtation with Asia is also designed to make Europe jealous. U.S. trade across the Pacific is already 50% greater than its transatlantic counterpart, a sizable change from 1980, when the figures were about equal. The European Community knows that APEC could provide the U.S. with a consortium to fall back on in the event of a breakdown in current negotiations over the 111-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which aims to reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community...
Yale President Richard Levin, meanwhile, predicts victory for his Bulldogs and Coach Carm Cozza--himself on the verge of retirement--and he shows more reserve than his Cantabridgian counterpart...
After a week of violence in Northern Ireland in which 24 people were killed, Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds invited his British counterpart, John Major, to discuss a new peace initiative. The two leaders offered terrorist groups a chance to participate in negotiations if they renounce violence...
...cash was needed to pay a "gratitude fee"--or bribe, depending on whom you asked--to his Korean counterpart for the privilege of doing business...