Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased that our own corporate behemoth, Harvard, has solved its troubles with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Just when the union members picketing outside Mass. Hall were getting warmer weather and more tourists to witness their discontent with the University, HUCTW has ratified a joint HUCTW-University agreement...
...joint effort brought together academics, business leaders and government officials in an effort to bridge the gap among the public, private and non-governmental sectors...
...care about the issue. Albright arrived armed with a package of proposals to make the accession of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the western alliance more palatable to the Yeltsin government. Included were a charter to link Russia to the alliance, unilateral arms reductions and a joint NATO-Russian brigade for peacekeeping operations. "It is no longer us versus you or you versus us," she told a news conference. "We are on the same side." Albright later met with a pale and wan Boris Yeltsin, and told reporters that the ailing President seemed "on top of his game...
Until last week, what is known in military parlance as "the necklace" was mostly invisible to American civilians. The fleet of 150 warplanes, flying from 10 bases ringing the U.S., costs taxpayers about $1 million a day defending the nation's air sovereignty. In 1993 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell recommended that the fleet be scrapped, saying, "We have a large number of planes that are still waiting for Soviet bombers to come over the North Pole." Last week there were fresh reasons for grounding the relic--two episodes in which it seemed as if U.S. warplanes were...
...would return to work if management would agree to rehire all the strikers, something that the company has already said it will not do. Unions hope that a refusal of their offer will help make their case before the National Labor Relations Board that Detroit Newspapers, which manages the joint business and production operations for The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, is trying to break the srike. If that complaint is upheld, strikers would be entitled to return to jobs now performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents...