Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon had become accustomed to light supervision by civilians under Reagan and Bush, when Defense Department officials routinely had their staff work done by uniformed personnel of the Joint Chiefs. Inman may be less likely than Aspin to fill Pentagon offices with former congressional aides. But if Inman's wise, he will fill posts more quickly. Aspin launched one of the major undertakings of his tenure, a "bottom up" review of military-force needs in the post-cold war era, even as dozens of high-level vacancies remained, including the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force...
Russian general manager Valery Gushin, who helped orchestrate the joint venture, is of two minds about the new approach. "Of course it's more normal for a sports team to be self-sufficient instead of state supported," he says. But Gushin explains that the lack of a transition period, as well as the general poor state of the Russian economy, has made work, even life, difficult. "I used to have a job, do it and go home at night. Now I am always thinking about how to sell the team." Oh, by the way, he adds with a smile...
Southwestern Bell and Cox Cable of Atlanta, the sixth largest cable operator in the country, agreed to form a $4.9 billion joint venture to enter the interactive-media business...
...audiotape of a therapy session the brothers had with Dr. Jerome Oziel on Dec. 11, 1989. On that 61-minute tape, which the defense struggled for three years to suppress, Lyle said they had killed Kitty to put her "out of her misery" over her loveless marriage, making a joint decision that Jose "should be killed" because of "what he's doing to my mother." Hoping to discredit Oziel, defense lawyers offered extensive testimony from / the married therapist's former lover. "The defense proved that Dr. Oziel was a philanderer," Bozanich said. "They did not prove that Dr. Oziel could...
After the October showdown, the Kremlin tinkered with the draft to tighten central control over Russia's 89 regions and autonomous republics. Federal laws are given precedence over local legislative acts, and natural resources are subject to joint federal and local control. Anticipating trouble in the hinterlands, which have exploited tensions in Moscow to go their own way, last week Kremlin advisers bluntly told local leaders in the ethnic republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Tuva and Kalmykia to refrain from "irresponsible remarks," hinting that the Kremlin might take measures to bring them into line...