Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another Thayer resident said although the dormitory often smells of pot on weekends, by the time the dorm was evacuated on Friday night, "it just stunk like burnt paper," he said. "It was a lot bigger fire than just a joint...
...elapsed, those responsible cannot be court-martialed; they can, however, be booted from the corps with a "less than honorable" administrative discharge. Krulak said the 1991 incident, apparently the more egregious one, involved 30 Marines, nine of whom are still on active duty. General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, seemed to raise the possibility last week that commanding officers could be held responsible. Said Shalikashvili: "Some leaders were involved and did not take the right steps. That's what's particularly bothersome about this incident...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has taken pains to respond to sentiments like this. Last month Interior officials flew to Utah to begin consulting with the Governor and other officials on how to protect both the monument and the local economy. Such joint planning has rarely been tried before in land-use disputes, and Babbitt has high hopes for it. "This is a brand-new model," he says. "We want to live together out there...
Oblivious to the commotion he is causing, Keating table-hops and shakes hands with hotel staff. The guy acts as if he still owns the joint, as if he's still a Southwestern Gatsby peddling hundreds of millions of dollars of soon-to-be-worthless junk bonds to elderly Southern Californians. Can Keating still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating...
What seems forgotten now, though, is that he just got out of the joint, the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, improbably freed after serving less than five years of a 12 1/2-year sentence. Since Keating walked, at age 73, prosecutors have been beside themselves to reimprison or retry him. In the meantime, he lives in near seclusion, although he recently met with TIME for two days of interviews that offer his first detailed account of his case since his release. Tan, relaxed and defiant, he says he is not going to cop a plea, say, for time served: "I didn...