Word: joinings
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Strangely enough, when I would speak to this among a group of Senators, it took more time than I thought to get some of them to come up and join me and say, "I want to work on this because I have a relative or a friend." But eventually, four or five Senators came up to me and said, "We got to work on this, Pete, because it's real." It took many a month until that first bill got to the floor. Then we just rolled it through the Senate. That was the first bill in 1996. And that...
...Pittsburgh, Pa., voted to break from the Episcopal Church amid controversy over same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly gay bishops that has divided the 77-million-member Anglican Communion--to which the Episcopal Church belongs--since 2003. Roughly two-thirds of Pittsburgh-area congregations are expected to join the diocese, which has aligned itself with Anglican churches in South America...
...American companies to sell nuclear technology to India, a nation with decades of hostile relations with its unstable nuclear-armed neighbor, Pakistan, and whose decision to test nuclear weapons in 1974 prompted Congress to adopt the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Since then, not only has India declined to join the NPT regime, it has refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and has continued to actively acquire nuclear material for its weapons program, despite a few recent concessions to stop unilateral nuclear tests and secure nuclear material...
...This man was a member of Democratic Governor’s Association, the Midwest Governor’s Association, the Governor’s Ethanol Coalition, and the Governor’s Biotech Partnership. He refuses to join any groups that don’t have the word “Governor” in their titles...
...Angeles to earn an M.B.A. from UCLA before working at Sony Pictures from 1989 to 1994, according to a company spokesman. He went on to serve in a small consulting group within PricewaterhouseCoopers dedicated to strategy and operational consulting for motion-picture companies. He left in 1999 to join EHS Partners, a start-up consulting firm. A 2001 story in the Daily Telegraph of London, under the headline "Bust, but big bucks for the big boys," called Rajaram a "winner" in a deal for NanoUniverse, a Los Angeles- and London-based venture fund taken public on the London Stock Exchange...