Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a nationally televised address. To prepare for the speech, Carter continued to consult with his top aides throughout the weekend. Vance canceled a scheduled appearance at Yale University and called off a trip to Panama so he would be available for talks. He had been planning to join Vice President Mondale at the ceremonies that will turn over most of the Canal Zone to the Panamanians...
...often, however, the new arrivals join the jobless masses. Unemployment is officially listed at 19%; unofficial estimates put it as high as half the work force. With no other prospects, tens of thousands of Mexicans today wrest a living from the junk heap. In Mexico City, occupants of $250,000 houses in posh suburbs like Bosques de las Lomas daily witness scenes that evoke images from Dante's Inferno. Beneath a perpetual mushroom cloud of pollution rising from a huge garbage dump called Santa Fe, 1,000 pepenadores (those who pick things up) sift through a pile of rubble...
...self-rule for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza as limited to local administrative matters. The Egyptians want the Palestinians to have broad judicial, executive and territorial rights. The final communique lamely predicted "an eventual agreement" and reiterated the hope that the West Bank Palestinians might soon join the autonomy talks...
Treasury Secretary G. William Miller turned down the company's initial aid proposal partly because its $1.2 billion request seemed extravagant and partly because he wanted the automaker to induce unions, suppliers and other parties to join in its recovery effort. One intriguing possibility involves the United Auto Workers' allowing Chrysler's pension fund to be used as a source of cash-perhaps in exchange for worker representation on the board of directors or for some other say in management...
...Pope's speeches may not permanently affect Church attendance, however. "It will take a lot more factors than a Pope's visit for people to decide whether to join the Church," Father Francis Rimkus, managing editor of the Pilot--the archdiocese newspaper--said...