Word: joint
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...result of the financial crisis, Ellwood said, the school anticipates a sharp rise in domestic applications for next year, citing an 80 percent increase in applications for the Kennedy School’s joint degree program with the Harvard Business School as an early indication...
...hide between their seaborne adventures. Although some countries are reluctant to support an initiative that would redefine the Law of the Sea, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is expected to present a draft to the Security Council early next week. Moreover, the European Union (EU) is pulling together a joint maritime effort to attack pirates on sea. For the EU, this represents an unprecedented move toward joint military efforts–the navies of Germany, Britain, France, and four other member countries are expected to participate in what has been dubbed Operation Atalanta. The motivations...
Last Wednesday, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and the Humanities Center inaugurated their joint lecture series, “The Church of What’s Happening Now,” with a conversation with wunderkind video artist Paul Chan—which I think is hysterical...
...some ways, Helmand province - which I visited with the German general Egon Ramms, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command - is a perfect metaphor for the broader war. The soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counter-insurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police...
...Chery will need all the help it can get. The global financial crisis is dampening the recent hopes of Chinese carmakers to become major international players. Chery's ambitions took a hit this week when a joint project with Chrysler to develop a small car for sale in the U.S. and elsewhere was terminated. In a statement, Mike Manley, Chrysler's executive vice president for international sales and marketing, said that the decision to cancel the cooperation agreement was made jointly by both companies because they "have realized that the economic situation and market environment around the world have changed...