Word: joint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia. Columnist Mary McGrory mourned "the last human barrier within the Government against the harsh and drastic steps recommended by the generals." Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said it was "ominous and scary." Another old New Frontiersman, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, conjectured that the Administration had yielded to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and "conservatives on the Hill" who wanted a "more compliant man" in the Pentagon...
...only 48 Ibs., but has gained 10% more body weight in eight weeks at Mount Zion. His malnutrition is halted, the infection in his burns gone. Carefully engineered blood transfusions preceded a new round of skin grafts, this time successful. The virus-plagued knee cartilage is destroyed, but the joint will be fused; some day, Tran Huu Nhon will walk again in Viet...
...their contention on a numbers game: the percentage of Negro employees in a company ought to equal the percentage of Negroes in the community, and the percentage of Negro executives should be in relation to both. In most parts of the U.S., they argue, the numbers are out of joint...
...airlines to fly the skies more economically than ever. Economies will be hard to come by, however, when such planes are on the ground. Rather than go it alone in footing the bills for servicing and overhauling, Eastern Air Lines and Trans World Airlines embarked last week on a joint project designed to reduce the cost of maintaining their future superjet fleets...
...must be approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board, TWA will handle aircraft maintenance and the training of ground and pilot crews-but not stewardesses-on both airlines' 490-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jets, due for delivery starting in 1969. Meanwhile, to cut capitalization costs as well as facilitate joint servicing, TWA will work with Boeing to make sure that design specifications on both fleets, covering everything from cockpit layout to cabin color schemes, are the same...