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...Appeals, ruling in favor of the conservationists, decreed that within 90 days the Government must order Japan to reduce its catch of fish in American waters by 50%. That would be a serious economic blow to the Japanese, who took in roughly two-thirds of the 1.4 million metric tons of fish caught by foreigners off U.S. shores last year. The Administration, not eager to rock its relations with Japan, may ask the Court of Appeals for a rehearing of the case and could possibly take the issue to the Supreme Court. The outcome will determine when Japan's whalers...
DIED. ROBERT CREELEY, 78, among the most influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...
Before you have me committed, let me explain. Lately, I’ve had awful luck with women. A friend calls it a “fizzle” when someone has a date or two but the relationship doesn’t progress from there. By that metric, I’ve had something like five fizzles since the middle of October...
Meanwhile, the Crimson maintained Ivy leads in scoring, passing, shooting, and just about every turnover ratio metric in existence...
...Even so, brokers - there are 11 brokerages involved in various aspects of the market - are optimistic. The price of a metric ton of CO2 has plunged since the ets scheme began officially on Jan. 1 - to less than ?7 from the informal "gray-market" figure of ?13 at the start of 2004 - but has inched upward again, closing at ?7.23 last Friday. The trading system is designed to limit greenhouse gases to specified targets while minimizing compliance costs - and fining offenders, starting at ?40 per ton in April. So if the price is very low, says Drummond, it could...