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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Agricultural subsidies Europe and Japan continue to heavily subsidize their farmers, making those markets less competitive for food exporting countries such as the U.S., Canada, Australia and Brazil. Although they'll find it difficult to maintain those subsidies in the face of WTO opposition, European and Japanese leaders are under intense political pressure from their domestic farming communities. They'll fight hard to slow the advance of agricultural imports into their markets, using arguments about food safety and consumer protection...
Niagara (9-1-1, 5-1-0) is in second place because of its easy schedule thus far. The Purple Eagles have beaten up on Maine and Boston College, and they split a two-game series at Cornell. But things will be much more difficult for Niagara, the only ECAC team without a travel partner. The Eagles host UNH this weekend and then travel to Cambridge for two games at Harvard...
...chose to work in the existing system because I felt that such an effort would be too difficult to sustain from year to year, and that much of the the council's lobbying efforts made the same progress. The council's professionalism and responsibility has increased since the introduction of popular elections for the council president four years ago. In these four years, the council's role in College decisions has increased. I feel that this incremental approach--which has seen policy changes in phone rates, dining services, house life, UHS, security and safety, advising, book prices and student group...
...renovations have also made some employees' jobs physically more difficult. HUDS introduced new plates in the dining halls this year--ceramic dishware that weighs three times more than the old models. The new plates are nice, but they create an unnecessary burden for staff. HUDS should either find a way to accommodate employees' concerns about the dishware...
...industry. That, of course, frequently means mergers of direct competitors or potential competitors, like Personify and Anubis. But while trustbusters may try to stop such a merger between two giant competitors or at least attach onerous conditions, they are almost sure to ignore combinations of little competitors. It is difficult to imagine a combination the size of Personify-Anubis or Gresham-Open resulting in a significant reduction of overall competition...