Word: splits
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Memo from the it's-just-as-nutty-over-there-as-it-is-over-here department: in their trade talks the Europeans have agreed on a free flow of a lot of stuff, including wheat, lawyers and intellectual property, but not bananas. After endless meetings, a banana split hangs over Europe...
This banana split is one small example of how diplomats and economists can promote free trade and all the GATT principles they want, but the basic issues can be talked to death and never get resolved. Like free love, free trade breaks down whenever there are people involved who want to protect their interests -- in this case, bananas...
...graduates are split about 50-50 in the abstract, but "are willing to defer to the undergrads," he says...
...very next drive, Cornell extended the lead. After receiving a punt on its 25-yard line, Cornell mounted a long, 11-play drive characterized by the brutal, up-the-middle running of Smith and Levitt. With the ball at the Harvard 24, Joyce split the Crimson defensive backfield perfectly, hitting a streaking Bjerke on a post-pattern for a touchdown. The extra point was blocked by senior Crimson defensive back David St. Peter...
...Crimson roared back. Mounting one of the longest drives of the game--stretching from the end of the first quarter through the first three minutes of the second--Harvard used the hard-nosed running of sophomore tailback Eion Hu and a 20-yard completion from Ferrara to freshman split end Coby Skelton to drive from its own 32 to the Cornell nine. There, Ferrara hit junior flanker Mike Halligan at the knees on a right post-pattern for the squad's first touchdown of the game...