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...ruling was issued in 1989, and the second, handed down last March, awarded the U.S. $1 billion in compensation for 20 years' worth of lost business. That decision set off a new round of negotiations, but at the last minute a proposed settlement was scuttled over a plan to cap annual oilseed production in Europe. The E.C. agreed to reduce the production limit from 12.5 million tons to 11 million tons but refused to accede to American requests to slash it again to 8.5 million tons. It was this standoff that finally drove Hills to take action...
...Clinton drove around Little Rock reveling in his good fortune. The Secret Service cocoon had yet to come and not a vote had been cast, but Clinton was already being hailed as the Democrat to beat. Dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt and with a University of Arkansas baseball cap tilted back on a head of hair considerably less gray than it is today, Clinton wheeled his state-owned sedan around town and laughed at the presumption of comparing himself to Lincoln. "Yet, you know," he said, "if you think about it, that description kind of gets at me some...
...team with as much as firepower as broken cap-gun, the Catamounts lone salvation is, as Coach Roger Gilles says, "strong defense and goaltending...
Coastal residents could take comfort in the prevailing view that Antarctica hasn't thawed for 14 million years, but that view is being challenged. A report in Nature suggests large portions of the ice cap may have melted just 3 million years...
...students, trying to associate names with faces. The effort has paid off since I can recognize my students in the Yard and call on them by name in class (even if I still make an occasional mistake or get confused when someone changes hair styles or wears a baseball cap...