Word: metrically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Worldwide, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 13 of 17 major ocean fisheries are in trouble. The annual marine-fish catch, having peaked at 86 million metric tons in 1989, dipped to 82.5 million tons by 1992. That's why representatives of 100 nations are now assembled at U.N. headquarters in New York City in the second of a series of meetings. The delegates are trying for the first time to put international controls on fishing for commercially valuable species...
...exposure--too much exposure for one Eagle whose behind was caught by a television camera. "Great, I got my ass on television," he moaned... Two funny mistakes were made by the Boston Garden scoreboard operator during Monday's game. First, they made sophomore Tom Holmes into a metric unit, calling him Ton Holmes. Second, when freshman Stuart Swenson was sent to the penalty box after being pummeled by a BC thug, the scoreboard read "Harvard penalty: #12 Steve Flomenhoft." Flomenhoft graduated last year...Valentine's Day at the Beanpot has not been too much fun for the Crimson: Harvard...
...these towns no longer does," says Anthony Land, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. "That, plus a cold winter, means that people are dying." Only two convoys reached the town of Zepa; Srebrenica received its last delivery on Dec. 10. On Thursday, trucks carrying 65 metric tons of aid finally reached Gorazde after being held up at Serbian checkpoints for two days. The region of Cerska, isolated in the mountains northeast of Sarajevo, hasn't received anything...
This would reduce the nation's annual carbon dioxide emissions by 202 million metric tons, which is equivalent to the exhaust expelled from 44 million cars. Harvard students, as tuition-payers and citizens of the earth, cannot afford to see Green Lights ignored...
...shop clutching sacks full of almost useless paper currency. Zaire's central monetary authority, which Mobutu has in the past treated as a personal piggy bank, is virtually bankrupt. Not long ago, a private German printer, claiming it had not been paid, halted shipments to Kinshasa of thousands of metric tons of new Zairian currency needed to keep up with local inflation...