Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments go back and forth, but the intense controversy over such a seemingly technical question reflects its deeper significance. The issue of joint appointments is linked to what critics say is Afro-Am's unequal status within the University...
...Isaac's most hotly contested charges is his statement that the ad hoc committee refused to tenure him because they would only make joint appointments...
Rosovsky counters that while the use of joint appointments was preferred by the Faculty Council and the Committee that reviewed the department in 1972, he personally placed Isaac's name before the ad hoc committee. "If no joint appointments were possible," Rosovsky asks, "Why would I have submitted his name...
...federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust laws to protect inventors and encourage joint developments, tax breaks for small innovative businesses, and the creation of cooperative technology centers to get technical information flowing among business, Government and academe...
...been a good summer. I haven't heard the word protectionism for months." By contrast, he said, the previous two years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee chairman, conceded that Japan, under U.S. pressure, had "begun to peel away" the cocoon of import regulations it had spun to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition...