Word: joint
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...language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol nor NASA responded adequately to internal warnings about the faulty seal design . . . There was a serious flaw in the decision-making process.'' The commission appointed to investigate the Challenger accident interviewed more than 160 people, held hearings that generated 2,800 pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly...
...Some in Congress who are eager to preserve SALT II point to assessments suggesting that abandoning the agreement could backfire on the U.S. According to a report prepared by the CIA for the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, the Soviets would be better suited to capitalize on the scrapping of SALT II because of two basic advantages: active production lines for manufacturing ICBMs, strategic bombers and submarine-launched missiles; and the greater throw weight of Soviet missiles, which would allow them to be loaded up with many more warheads. House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin says the Soviet production-line superiority...
...Flash forward two months, and the national debate has finally caught up with political reality. It now focuses on the end of the Iraq conflict - on "timetables," "timelines" or, in the Orwellian Newspeak of the White House, "joint aspirational time horizons." Whatever the language and whatever translations are used, the conversation is changing. Both the White House and the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, now publicly talk about temporal goals. Last week al-Maliki even declared a preference for Obama's 16-month redeployment plan - though his spokesman subsequently issued a vague, none-too-convincing clarification stating that...
...troops, we need a unified command and a nationwide civil-military campaign plan that is focused on providing security for the population. A successful counterinsurgency requires that we use all the instruments of our national power and that military and civilian leaders work together, at all levels, under a joint plan. Too often in Afghanistan, this is not happening. We need an Afghanistan czar, and I will appoint a highly respected national-security leader, based in the White House and reporting directly to the President, whose sole mission will be to ensure we bring the war to a successful...
...surface that had rubbed against another surface under 150 lbs. of force at least two or three million times a year for nearly a 100 years. And the knee was still perfect - there was absolutely no arthritis. How could this be? Only by virtue of being alive. The living joint has all sorts of intricate self-repair machinery, machinery that works to undo damage - right down to the molecular level. And, frankly, it doesn't usually work as well as it did in that patient. But its there in all living things - an automatic machinery that works against the laws...