Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strenuous talks with the rebel leaders, interrupted by frantic calls to the Chechen and Russian camps to quell sporadic fighting, he announced a breakthrough that he claimed would "terminate this bloody bacchanalia." A cease-fire would commence at noon on Friday, Russian troops would begin departing Grozny, and joint patrols would police the shattered city. In another couple of days, he promised to produce a permanent political solution to Chechnya's bid for independence. Never mind that similar plans have come and gone in the 20-month war. Claiming credit for the deal, Lebed offered perhaps the most succinct analysis...
...Home Page claims he's relatively well known in the computer industry. "I'm not saying I'm the ace of spades, but I'm not the two of clubs either," he said last week, after agreeing to an unprecedented face-to-face meeting at a Manhattan barbecue joint. (For identification purposes, this was worthless: I didn't recognize...
...horizon are MCI Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...
...that still possible? Dole's advisers talk up voters' lingering doubts about Clinton's credibility. But the Republican hopeful could be creating a credibility chasm of his own. His proposed tax cuts are so enormous--$551 billion over six years, according to the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee--as to leave him wide open to charges that they will cause the federal deficit to balloon. And thanks in no small part to the decades-long preaching of a former Senator named Robert J. Dole, polls lately indicate the public prefers lower deficits to lower taxes. So, in fact, do Republican Convention...
...portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that the whole point of the Mob--the purpose of looting pension funds, intimidating building contractors, throwing deadbeats into canals with concrete shoes--was to make its board of directors extremely wealthy...