Word: jointed
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Then came more bad news: Lieut. General Edward Rowny, 62, a Jackson protégé and the Joint Chiefs of Staffs representative on the U.S. SALT negotiating team in Geneva, announced that he was resigning from the Army. Rowny has made no secret of his disapproval of SALT II, and he is expected to provide the treaty's opponents with ammunition, since he can speak authoritatively about the swaps that went on at the bargaining table
...blue and white Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base for the flight to Vienna. The President was accompanied by Vance; Defense Secretary Harold Brown; National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; General George Seignicus, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; General David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and four Georgians from the White House: Hamilton Jordan, Frank Moore, Jody Powell and Gerald Rafshoon. All of them carried under their arms black, 3-in.-thick briefing books, stamped in gold with the presidential seal and the legend: PRESIDENT CARTER'S MEETING WITH SOVIET PRESIDENT BREZHNEV...
Last week the congressional Joint Economic Committee, of which Senator Bentsen is chairman, began special hearings into the productivity sag. From expert witnesses, the committee heard that despite the recent decline, the U.S. still has the world's highest level of productivity, but the lead is shrinking rapidly. In 1950 it took seven Japanese or three German workers to match the industrial output of one American; today two Japanese or 1.3 Germans can do as well. Last year the Japanese had a productivity increase of 8%; the U.S. gain was only .3%. In this year's first quarter...
Last week's congressional hearings concentrated on what the U.S. could learn from foreign countries. Joji Arai, manager of the U.S. office of the Japan Productivity Center, cited 15 reasons for his country's productivity surge, including lax antitrust enforcement, large spending on R. and D., and joint management-worker programs to increase quality and eliminate production-line bottlenecks. Looking at the European experience, Eugene Merchant, director of research planning for Cincinnati Milacron Inc., emphasized the importance of the so-called trilateral relationship among Government, universities and companies. This is an idea that Europe adopted from...
Estis says he feels the boycott "brought the Afro-Am Department to students' doorsteps," and has already resulted in an increase in the number of concentrators. "We've got nine new freshman concentrators for next fall, and 21 or 22 new concentrators including joint ones," he adds...