Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American business leaders, who are eager to get Moscow's ear on joint-venture ideas, think they have found just the way to do it. A group of companies led by Dwayne Andreas, chairman of the agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland, wants to buy the partly completed U.S. embassy in Moscow and convert it to office space for American companies doing deals there. Construction on the $22 million, eight-story facility was halted in 1985, when the U.S. discovered it was honeycombed with listening devices. If President Bush decides to pursue the proposal, he would have to persuade the Soviets...
...last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that the kind of flap that followed the savings and loan mess may be repeated when he tells a joint session of Congress on Feb. 9 which promises he will keep and which ones he will abandon. "Look, I don't expect it's all going to be sweetness and harmony and light," the President said. "The minute we get those proposals up there on Feb. 9, I expect...
...Senate, meanwhile, prepared last night to debate a joint resolution killing the big pay raise, and a companion measure to restrict speaking fees and other honoraria received by its members...
...senators and representatives attending Tuesday's Joint Committee hearing on the 1989 economic outlook hardly looked surprised when Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan told them he thought President Bush's economic forecast was too optimistic...
...minorities audition for roles in Common Casting, a joint effort by directors to audition actors for about 35 plays each semester, said HRDC president Nestor M. Davidson '90. In addition, directors may be reluctant to cast some plays "untraditionally...