Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopping list is right out of the cold war. The Air Force wants 438 F-22 fighters at $160 million apiece. The Navy plans to buy 1,000 advanced F-18Es. The Army is counting on 1,292 Comanche helicopters. And the services together want 2,978 more Joint Strike Fighters. That's 5,708 planes; this mere slice of Pentagon spending will cost as much as all federal environmental programs for the next 17 years...
...believes the economy is growing too fast, and he's getting ready to slow it down. The Fed Chairman prepared investors for an increase in interest rates by telling a Congressional committee that he believed the Fed had to act soon to head off inflation. Speaking before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Greenspan said that strong economic growth so far this year, coupled with a tight labor market, will lead to inflation later unless the central bank acts soon. Greenspan specifically linked his concerns to recent reports showing unexpected strength in such areas as retail sales and job growth, which...
Walters read excerpts from her interviews with retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and actor Christopher Reeve...
Walters is best known for arranging a joint interview in 1977 with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
...wring the maximum possible concessions out of the U.S. before NATO begins its eastward expansion. With the Russian Foreign Minister taking an increasingly hard line towards expansion, Clinton laid several concessions out on the table. Among them were a charter to give Russian more participation in NATO proceedings, joint peacekeeping operations similar to those in Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy troops in substantial numbers in newly admitted states. But because none of the proposals addressed one of Russia's most coveted demands, a document legally binding the country to NATO, Primakov left unsatisfied. Emerging from the White...