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American law specifies two actions that the President can take. He can ban Japanese fishing vessels from U.S. waters, but that would merely be symbolic, since, for conservation reasons, the Japanese do not currently have American fishing rights. An alternative would be to restrict imports of Japanese fish products, which amount to more than $300 million annually. That could backfire, however, since Japan might retaliate against fish imports from the U.S. worth some $1.4 billion a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Them Eat Beef | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Finishing atop the ECAC regular-season standings is like winning the eastern Montana fly fishing championships: it's a great accomplishment, but nobody notices. Except, of course, the fish...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Regular-Season Crown Made Only of Paper | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...builds on the idea of the capture-recapture" statistical technique, Donald B. Rubin, chairman of the Statistics Department, says of his census modification technique. Rubin explains the new procedure as similar to the method biology researchers use to study bird and animal populations. "It's like tagging fish in a pond, releasing them, and catching them again to see how the population has changed," he says...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Working Towards a Sensible Census | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...just playing great squash," Harvard Coach Dave Fish said. "He was moving very well. He was cutting up all of his opponents...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Ball Finishes Second, Edge Gets Consolation in USSRAs | 2/16/1988 | See Source »

...mind, indeed. The quavering romantic nature flops like a landed fish but never expires entirely, our middle-aged boy discovers. Debts pound at the door like crazy firemen; responsibilities rise like dunes on the Cape; girls in their 20s call him Sir (Oh, call me Captain); and still our hero hopes. Will love come to Captain Midlife? Has it been there all along? Stay tuned as the insomniac, not-yet-ancient mariner rests his head on the railing at a Knicks-Bulls game in which he is Air-Jordaning three feet over the rim | one moment and the next eloping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Captain Midlife Sends a Valentine | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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