Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...NOTEBOOK: Following Tuesday's game against Dartmouth, Harvard will have a two-week layoff...The team has decided to skip the ECAC's and will instead set up possible scrimmages along with their regular practice schedule. "Exam period is tough," Berkery said. "Now we have some time off to prepare."..And then comes the real test, the NCAA Final Four May 19-20 in Princeton...
Last week representatives from 18 nations gathered in Washington for a global-warming conference set up by the White House. The Administration had hoped to get a debate going on the uncertainties of the greenhouse effect. Instead, most of the delegates appeared to agree that the global-warming threat is real and potentially serious. In the face of this strong sentiment, President Bush denied that he was taking global warming too lightly. The President reconfirmed a U.S. pledge to cooperate in a United Nations effort to forge an international agreement on dealing with climate change...
...remains impoverished and embittered. While it has been at peace since most Vietnamese troops left Cambodia last September, there is great discontent over living conditions and an annual per capita income of less than $200, far below that of South Vietnam in 1975. Last year 75,000 boat people set sail for the refugee camps of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, attempting to escape not so much an oppressive regime as grinding poverty. Free-market economic reforms begun in 1986 have sparked a revival in the cities, but they have yet to improve living standards in the countryside, where...
...winner is . . . Mark A. Brest van Kempen, 28, a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute. His idea is to set down a granite ring, 6 ft. in diameter, with an earth-filled 6-in.-diameter hole in the center. An inscription will read, THIS SOIL AND THE AIR SPACE EXTENDING ABOVE IT SHALL NOT BE PART OF ANY NATION AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY ENTITY'S JURISDICTION...
Also the captain of Yale's football team (for which he also wears number 32), Reese leads the nation in goal-scoring with 66 tallies in 14 games. He is just four goals shy of tying the single-season goal-scoring record set two years ago by current Syracuse senior Gary Gait in the Orangemens' 15-game 1988 season...