Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Egypt is now heavily dependent on Western and Japanese aid and investment. Cairo officials fear that the Arab irritation with Egypt may deter Western companies from seeking out the joint-venture projects with Egyptian partners that Sadat is encouraging. Though the oil companies have been involved in exploration for some years, the list of other major U.S. investors that have moved into Egypt or are seriously considering doing so is still fairly short. Coca-Cola, 7-Up and Xerox have set up operations there; Ford, General Motors and Union Carbide have investment projects in the planning stage. Yet Egypt...
...education system along Islamic lines are being talked about, Khomeini has so far had remarkably little effect on the nature of Iran's universities. Only about 5% of the professors and administrators were purged for ties with the Shah. Since the revolution, faculty and staff have formed joint councils to run many of the schools. The tilt is definitely to the left, whether Islamic or Marxist...
Words matched gestures. Dimitrios announced the establishment of a joint commission of theologians that will work to resolve differences. The first meeting is expected next spring. In a joint statement, the two leaders said the goal of the talks is nothing less than "re-establishment of full communion" between the world's 700 million Roman Catholics and more than a dozen self-governing branches of Eastern Orthodoxy that together include an estimated 125 million believers. A new spirit of warmth had begun when Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I met in Jerusalem at the Mount of Olives...
...some ways, though, the two churches are already united. The Second Vatican Council declared that the Orthodox "possess true sacraments, above all-by apostolic succession-the priesthood and the Eucharist." In other words it saw virtually no doctrinal barrier to joint Communion, which is not yet the case with any other Christian body. For the Orthodox, however, Communion should be shared only when full doctrinal accord is achieved...
...eventually be. Before his trip to Turkey, John Paul told Catholic ecumenists from 59 nations that Christian divisions "impair the credibility of Christ himself and hinder the spread of the Gospel. He has also insisted that Christians must act together, not merely striving for doctrinal harmony but bearing joint witness in defense of human rights, the pursuit of social justice and peace, and on questions of public morality. "The moral life and the life of faith," he has said, "are deeply united." Concluded Patriarch Dimitrios, after the historic embrace: "The meeting today is destined for the tomorrow...