Word: biannually
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Senior Dora Gyorffy--who still holds a share of the NCAA indoor record of 1.97 meters in the high jump--chose to compete at the biannual IAAF World Indoor Championships in Lisbon for her native Hungary rather than defend her NCAA title. On Friday in Lisbon, she placed fifth with a leap of 1.93 meters...
...students who fit the special case outlined above, the scarcity of departmental courses cross-listed for Core credit stands out as a significant problem of the current Core program. So does the somewhat mysterious petition process. As students familiar with the tempting biannual array of course options, we believe that reasonable departmental alternatives for Core courses should be explored more fully, and the Standing Committee on the Core Program pledges to do so. Progress has been made--the committee recently approved the cross-listing of Economics 1010a for Social Analysis credit. We hope this trend will continue, allowing students...
...biannual ARTCETERA auction benefiting the AIDS Action Committee is a hugely, hugely big deal in the Boston art scene. Two-hundred eighty-nine works by contemporary local artists are on display from Oct. 9 through Oct. 13 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston, prior to being auctioned off on the 14th. To get there, take the Orange Line to Back...
...United States' biannual list of countries alleged to sponsor terrorism is as much a practice in politics as it is in practicalities. The State Department's "Patterns in Global Terrorism" document released Monday emphasizes that most terrorist activity today emanates from groups independent of any state that can't easily be reined in by pressure on a government. Nonetheless, though the report focuses particularly on the upsurge in terrorist activity in Afghanistan and Pakistan - and uses the mention as a means to pressure those countries - it stops short of adding them to the official list of countries supporting terrorism...
Like a fireman pointing a hose at a smoldering house, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan indicated Thursday morning that he will continue trying to cool off the economy before it bursts into flames. Making his biannual Humphrey Hawkins report to Congress, Greenspan again delivered the familiar sugar - the U.S. economic juggernaut is plowing on with no slowdown in sight - and then the medicine: This prosperity has to be kept at a steady pace. Financial analysts take this to mean that a substantial hike in the Fed's lending rates is in order...