Word: jointed
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...representative of the [Joint Committee on Benefits] has even implied to me that any such thing is forthcoming. I find it hard to imagine how someone could make a change that would be effective January 1," he added...
TIME's John Dickerson reports that House and Senate negotiators may reach a compromise as soon as this evening between their versions of legislation prohibiting the distribution of "indecent material" over the Internet and online services. House members on a joint committee narrowly voted Wednesday to ban "indecent" material, but to give service providers protection against prosecution. "The online services were worried that using the broad 'indecent' standard, rather than the more narrowly defined 'harmful to minors' standard, would produce a 'chilling effect' by holding them responsible for indecent materials in their system," says TIME's John Dickerson...
Fortunately, "here" is only a simulated fast-food joint, not the real thing. Jupiter and 19 classmates, all of them 55 or older, are the first students in an odd if hopeful training program begun jointly this fall by New York City's Department for the Aging and the Riese Organization, a Manhattan-based company that owns 200 chain-restaurant franchises. Designed to help the elderly rejoin today's service-oriented economy--sometimes after years of unemployment or retirement that has left them with skills applicable only to old-fashioned, well-paying jobs--the center was created with...
...joint venture operated by Shell in Nigeria is responsible for 70 percent of the Nigerian state's revenues. The U.S. buys nearly half of Nigerian oil exports; even though this amounts to less than 10 percent of overall American oil imports. Instead of taking the obvious and most effective measure of an oil embargo on Nigeria, the U.S. and other world governments have preferred to launch futile paper arrows at the Nigerian government through "quiet diplomacy...
NATO Defense ministers unanimously endorsed the Bosnian "implementation force," known as IFOR, and dubbed the mission Operation Joint Endeavor. General George Joulwan, NATO's European commander, said most of the 60,000 heavily armed troops from 15 different countries would be in the Balkans within a month of the signing of the Balkan peace agreement in Paris, now scheduled for mid-December...