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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...team was in action at the U.S. Naval Academy for the Trux Umsted Intersectional, where it captured a respectable sixth place out of a field of twenty. Most impressive was Harvard's status as the top team in the Northeastern conference...

Author: By Stephanie Murg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Teams Continue Spring Prep | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...other hand, business and industry organizes and continues to run the FLA. Indeed, it recently announced that it intends to hire Price Waterhouse Coopers, a business services corporation with ties to most major garment manufacturers, to do its field-work. The FLA also has bad inspection policies. It does not require the results of site visits be made public, it announces where and when it will inspect factories, it allows companies to select monitors and list which factories should be monitored and it deals with third party complaints in a convoluted way. The FLA leaves such matters in the hands...

Author: By Alexander H. Gourevitch, | Title: The Logical Choice | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...what their name denotes--make money. That requires taking the same government funds that the average school district spends per pupil per year--the U.S. average is $6,500--and not only providing a superior education but also squeezing out a profit. That's a tough task in a field in which "the margins are more like McDonald's than Microsoft's," as Thomas Toch, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School for Profit | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...when we're going to eat." The shorefront college has its own garden to supply the cafeteria with fresh vegetables and fruit, and many families pick blueberries and bring them to the kitchen for a special treat. The adult fee is $575 and includes all meals, accommodations and field trips. Children pay from $140 to $250. The telephone number is 207-288-5015, and the website is www.coa.edu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Summer Campus | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...still pay no sales tax for most purchases, but how long can the holiday last? The 19-member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is scheduled to issue recommendations to Congress this week. Despite the fact that a majority of commission members are reportedly in favor of leveling the playing field between bricks-and-mortar businesses and Internet dot-com stores, they're not expected to suggest repeal of the federal tax freeze anytime soon. The problem is no one agrees on how sales taxes, usually levied by states, could be set and collected, or by whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided Commission Expected to Recommend Extending Net Tax Freeze | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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