Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, the HUC last night agreed to arrange a joint HUC-SFAC-HPC meeting Thursday night after the Faculty meets to consider a possible response to the Faculty if their recommendation is rejected...
...that has emerged in the recent campaigns is the extreme volatility of voters. Three consecutive polls in the last ten days of July showed radically different estimates of the respective strengths of Nixon and Rockfeller against various Democratic opponents. Gallup and Harris, two of the three involved, issued a joint statement explaining the discrepancy on the grounds of a shifting political scene, high voter volatility, and sampling errors. They added that, "each [poll] was an accurate reflection of opinion at the time it was taken...
While this explanation seemed satisfactory, Rep. John Moss (D-Calif.) saw danger in the nation's two chief pollsters collaborating on a joint statement. He submitted a bill to the House of Representatives which provided for the establishment of a Committee on Public Opinion Polls to look into all aspects of the problem...
...separates the two countries. Iran refused to ratify a 1965 agreement dividing the Gulf into Saudi and Iranian zones, and Arabian newspapers blossomed with maps labeling it the "Arabian Gulf." When an Aramco drilling team, with Saudi approval, began working in the same waters as the Iranian concessionaire, a joint venture by Iranians and Standard Oil of Indiana, one of the Shah's gunboats arrested the oilmen...
...divided and weak to defend them selves, the sheikdoms will be wide open to subversion when the British depart unless the Shah and Feisal fill the vacuum. No agreement was reached at Riyadh on joint defense measures. But, taking no chances, Iran pushed ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on arms and development in the region. The Iranians are adding three minesweepers to the nine minesweepers and 125 patrol boats already on duty in the Gulf. The first two squadrons of U.S.-built Phantom jets have arrived at the southern Iranian air base of Vahdati, only...