Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace enforcers serving under NATO command, the French, British, American and other members of the 60,000-strong international implementation force--32 countries in all are definitely participating in Operation Joint Endeavor--will carry heavy weapons and be authorized to shoot not only if they come under fire but even if they are just threatened. American G.I.s specifically can fire if anyone points a gun at them in a menacing fashion. And the order to fire need not come down any chain of command. It can be given by a sergeant on the spot...
...some suspected mine clusters can be spotted from the air by Apache helicopters. Explosive-sniffing dogs and tank-mounted rakes and rollers can help clear a path through a minefield, but many mines will have to be dug out by hand. Says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff: "That's why an awful lot of soldiers have been spending a lot of time on their hands and knees learning the old-fashioned way" during training exercises in Germany. The difficulties of clearing mines are immensely multiplied if roads and fields are covered by deep snow...
According to Mike Harris, the public information consultant for the Joint Policy Board of Mathematics, the organization which oversaw the process, the award was started in response to an incredibly small amount of undergraduate research done by comparison to graduate-level research...
...stand before you with one overriding commitment," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a joint session of Congress today, "to yield to no threat, to stop at no obstacle in negotiating the hurdles ahead, in seeking security for our people, peace for our land, tranquility for our region." The next step in the Middle East peace process: Syria, where negotiations over the control of the Golan Heights remain deadlocked. After a six month absence while working on the Bosnia peace plan, Secretary of State Warren Christopher will return his attention to the Middle East, departing Thursday for Damascus, Jerusalem, Egypt...
After two years on the job, Case, who has a joint psychology-law enforcement degree, makes $19,100. (Caseworker salaries in big cities average about $37,000.) A single mother, she is on call 24 hours a day and gets no reimbursement for the $5-an-hour baby-sitting fees she incurs responding to an emergency. She logs more than 1,000 miles on her car each month, and the 22¢ a mile she is compensated barely covers the costs of gas, let alone the wear and tear on her 1983 Toyota Corolla. Yet she is indefatigable. "Every night when...