Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last April, when many students and faculty members erupted in dismay over the announcement that former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin L. Powell would be the Commencement speaker, Green noted that he had had another choice in mind...
...they graduated from one of America's military academies. For generations the ring signified that the wearer was a cut above. No longer: the ring knockers are losing their grip on the armed forces. When Admiral Jeremy Boorda becomes chief of naval operations this month, five of the six Joint Chiefs of Staff will be nonacademy men who have come up through the enlisted ranks or from officer- training programs...
...four Russians were interested in a joint venture with their guest of honor, a foreign businessman, but had little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types. (Russians still call the secret police the KGB, even though the domestic side of the agency has been renamed the Federal Counterintelligence Service.) Nor could they afford to be spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show...
Campbell made his remarks in testimony before a meeting of the state's Joint Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs. He was before the panel to assess his department's performance over the last year and answer questions about budget requests made...
...While joint concentrations arefulfilling for many students, there is debate asto whether such courses of study significantlyincrease one's career opportunities. VineerBhansali, a Ph.D from Harvard and now a vicepresident at Citicorp in New York says, "Itdoesn't matter if you have two or three majorsbecause when you get into Wall Street you have tore-learn everything anyway...