Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interested in joining such a group. Among the benefits that membership in such a group could offer would be the solidarity and increased prestige that come from a union of common interests. We could lobby for more interviews with administrators, ask for better access to University records and pursue joint business ventures such as increasing advertising revenues or purchasing supplies such as newsprint in bulk...
...still. The three networks are talking about doing all-news and none of their plans is solid. Murdoch has the tougher job because he doesn't have, as the other networks do, a national news operation up and running to build on." But Ailes, who appeared Tuesday at a joint press conference with Murdoch, spun forward: "When everybody says you can't do it, you get up the next day and find that Rupert Murdoch has done...
...Republican analyst Kevin Phillips observes. Voters sometimes bluntly tell Forbes that they like his tax plan because it would ensure that rich people like him, with fancy lawyers and lobbyists and accountants, paid at least as much as the average taxpayer. In fact the rich already pay more. The Joint Committee on Taxation, which is controlled by Republicans in Congress, says the best-paid 1% of Americans, who declare more than $219,770 in annual income, fork over 27% of it to the irs, in contrast to 5% paid by Americans earning the median income of $32,364. Forbes says...
While corporal punishment does not imply abuse, the joint conception of children as property share disturbingly similar characteristics. There are certainly many alternative means of punishing children. Teaching them moral codes and the concept of responsibility for one's actions needn't come so close to undermining those of their parents...
...Kennedy Jr.'s celeb-studded political monthly "George" has hit its first public potholes. Eric Etheridge, the magazine's editor, is leaving after just two issues, citing "editorial differences." Kennedy, whose title is editor-in-chief, will reportedly assume Etheridge's hands-on duties at the magazine, a joint undertaking between Kennedy's Random Ventures Inc. and French publisher Hachette Filipacchi. From the beginning "George" defied the odds against political publications by selling 500,000 copies of its innaugural issue. And though it received favorable critical reviews, the magazine's initial success was attributed to the star quality...