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biennial
biennial A plant that requires two growing seasons to complete its life cycle. During the first year it builds up food reserves, which are used during the second year in the production of flowers and seeds. Examples are carrot and parsnip.
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SOME BIENNIALS BLOOM FOR YEARS YET REQUIRE LITTLE COMMITMENT
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 9/18/1997; ; 602 words
; ...blossoms. Other biennial flowers require...effort on your part. Biennials are plants that...charm of specific biennials that provides the...with white eyes of biennial forget-me-not...helping a tender biennial such as English...winter. Not all biennials follow the rules...
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Biennial budgeting in Washington cities and counties.
Magazine article from: Government Finance Review; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...of Washington Legislature authorized biennial budgeting for counties. This same option...jurisdictions are currently operating with a biennial budget and what the advantages and disadvantages...Washington cities may only begin the biennial budget on an odd-numbered year, but...
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BIENNIAL BUDGETING:RONALD K. SNELL
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 3/16/2000; 700+ words
; ...GOVERNMENTS MARCH 16, 2000 ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL BUDGETING: THE EXPERIENCE OF STATE...the past 50 years has been to abandon biennial budgeting for annual budgeting. Forty-four states practiced biennial budgeting in 1940. Twenty-one do...
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BIENNIAL BUDGETING:PHILIP G. JOYCE
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 3/16/2000; 700+ words
; ...Rules U.S. House of Representatives on Biennial Budgeting March 16, 2000 Chairman Dreier...federal government from an annual to a biennial budgeting process. After discussing...timetable for the resolution from annual to biennial would diminish its role, and would therefore...
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BIENNIAL BUDGETING:LOUIS FISHER
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 3/10/2000; 700+ words
; ...RESEARCH SERVICE, HOUSE COMMITTEE ON RULES BIENNIAL BUDGETING MARCH 10, 2000 Mr. Chairman, thank you for inviting me to testify on biennial budgeting. My statement focuses on three...the efficiencies that might accompany biennial budgeting, and whether this reform will...
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The Biennial, Exhibiting a Few Wrinkles; The Corcoran Appraises Its Art-Show Tradition
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/10/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...reconsidering the relevance of biennial exhibits of new painting...major contemporary art biennials -- the Whitney Biennial in New York, the Venice...something other biennials abandoned long ago. In 1907, its first biennial filled the museum with...
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Biennial Budgeting Act Introduced in House by Rep. Whitfield
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/7/2006; 700+ words
; ...R-Kentucky, has introduced the Biennial Budgeting Act of 2006 (H.R. 6024), legislation that would provide a biennial budget for the U.S. The bill...text of the legislation follows:Biennial Budgeting Act of 2006H.R. 6024To...
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BE DELIBERATE ABOUT YOUR BIENNIALS.(Spotlight on Home and Gardening)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 9/5/1997; 700+ words
; ...blossoms. Other biennial flowers require...effort on your part. Biennials are plants that...charm of specific biennials that provides the...with white eyes of biennial forget-me-not...helping a tender biennial such as English...winter. Not all biennials follow the rules...
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The Corcoran Biennial: Delivery on Collection
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/19/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary American paintings show to rethink the biennial's future, the Corcoran has put up a show of works from past biennials -- a biennial of biennials, the best acquisitions from a century of biennials...
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Reconsidering exhibition practice: NCECA Biennial.(National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts )
Magazine article from: Ceramics Art & Perception; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...How well does the NCECA Biennial represent the dynamic of the...from 2005? The function the Biennial fulfills within the public...to a single ideology. The Biennial should embody that which is...intersubjectively shared by its members. Biennials have limitations. Not everything...
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biennial
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
biennial plant requiring two years to complete...a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves...the hollyhock) are often treated as biennials. Some biennials will, like annuals, bloom in the...
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Art Trends
Book article from: American Decades
...most controversial works at the 1993 biennial exhibition of new art at the Whitney...Whitney and all the works in the 1993 biennial. A Major Postmodernist In the 1990s...For the controversial 1993 Whitney biennial, Sherman photographed mannequins with...
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Cabbage and Crucifer plants
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...are usually herbaceous annuals, biennials, or perennials. Cabbage and related...cultivars, the cole crops have a biennial reproductive cycle. Broccoli and cauliflower may be either annual or biennial (Table 1). Except for tropical...
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Herb
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...from seed, and they can be annual, biennial, or perennial species. Plants that...parsley (Petroselinum hortense) is a biennial plant in the carrot family (Umbelliferae...vegetables. Caraway (Carum carvi) is a biennial umbellifer. The seeds of caraway are...
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onion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...times. The onion ( A. cepa ), no longer found wild, is a biennial now grown in many varieties throughout the world as a table...of small onionlike bulbs. It and the more familiar leek, a biennial with a small single bulb, are both commonly used fresh in...
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