Word: swimming
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...State Department sees such boycotts as a violation of federal sovereignty and free trade. Then there are the environmentalists. To protect sea turtles, an endangered species, they want an import ban on shrimp caught in nets that don't have escape hatches to let the turtles swim away. Congress has adopted such a ban, but the WTO forbids it; member nations can't block imports on the basis of the way they are produced. The organization may also eventually forbid American "antidumping" laws that bar the import of low-cost foreign steel. Those laws are important to American unions...
...vice president and presidential candidates seemed to have official platforms that were more than a little influenced by their personalities. Could it be a coincidence that vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, a member of the Harvard crew team, announced his intention to end Harvard's "sink or swim" atmosphere? The audience could hear the emotion in his voice as he promised to make Harvard into "a sea with a coast guard." Clearly, Wikler wanted us to draw the conclusion that only he, a Crew team member, could fill the position of a coast guard...
Changing the "sink-or-swim" atmosphere of the College--both in advising and in social life--took center stage for most of the candidates, who differed primarily in their suggested approaches to the problem...
...Since our team wasn't rested, we didn't expect to swim as well...
...apocalyptic circus of startling imagination. Everything is designed to be an illusion--to take you in one direction and then make you refigure (the best example I can think of in "O" has a clown drifting on a raft in an ocean; a shark fin begins to swim around him and he panics; he suddenly calms down, picks up a fishing pole and hooks the fin, pulling it up to reveal a crescent moon which he gleefully hangs in the sky). It's also a decidedly French experience--it's incomparable to anything that I've ever seen in American...