Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April 29, after a joint rally in front of Columbia's Low Library, students marched on Hamilton Hall, entered the office of the dean of student and held him hostage for the night...
...fact that I would have said no had nothing to do with me being Black," Kilson says. "I don't think there was much problem there because most of the appointments we were offering were joint appointments between Afro-Am and another, more established department...
...thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even though it produces none...
...this context, Greenspan's close relationship with the Clinton Administration, which burst into the spotlight with his now famous appearance beside Hillary Rodham Clinton at the President's first address to a joint session of Congress in February 1993, has turned out to be useful. "Both sides need each other," says Felix Rohatyn, a partner at the investment firm Lazard Freres. "The Administration benefits from the reflected cachet of a conservative Republican like Greenspan, whose job is made easier by the deficit-reduction policies and fiscal prudence that Clinton has so far demonstrated." Besides the saxophone, both men have...
...joint expedition of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences unveiled a trove of fossil remains uncovered last summer in the Gobi Desert. Among the scores of fossils are specimens of a turkey-size creature that resembled both dinosaurs and birds. Perhaps even more important was the discovery of 140 skulls of small mammals that lived 80 million years ago. The mammal finds may provide clues to the evolutionary events that allowed mammals to flourish as the dinosaurs disappeared...