Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint Congressional conference yesterday approved a compromise proposal which would give medical schools more flexibility in admitting transfer students but still require a 5-per-cent increase in enrollment next year...
...executives insist that they were the first to think of a joint interview. Three days before Cronkite's coup, the network began seeking agreement from Begin and Sadat for an unprecedented televised dialogue, during which an invitation could be made and accepted directly. When ABC Correspondent Peter Jennings in Cairo broached the idea to Sadat during an untelevised discussion Monday, Sadat said he would go before the Knesset, if formally invited. That night ABC news showed Jennings paraphrasing his talk with Sadat, and then cut to a taped interview with Begin, who offered Sadat a verbal invitation. "Cronkite took...
...fact, a lot of folks on Capitol Hill seem to have it in for Carter's bill. After seven months of congressional scrutiny, the fate of the 283-page program is now in the hands of a joint conference committee. Initially, the committee had hoped to finish its task by Christmas, but with 100-odd separate items in the bill, work is proceeding slowly. The committee decided to recess for Thanksgiving week, and key Congressmen have begun hinting that some of the provisions may have to be broken out as separate bills and presented to Carter...
...publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs as does the imported manager of a franchised taco joint on the highway outside town. A study of two dozen West Coast newspapers reported in the current Journalism Quarterly concludes that chain papers "have fewer argumentative editorials in controversial contexts on local topics ... The impact is not helpful to readers who seek guidance on local matters...
Still, some experts think the trend away from mobility may be temporary, a product of recession and the wildly inflated housing market. John Pitkin, senior research associate at the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, argues that if housing starts had not declined in recent years, people would be leapfrogging from house to house at record rates...