Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intraparty revolt spread, top House leaders telephoned Clinton and urged him to step back from the budget battle to preserve his leverage for the joint House-Senate conference committee later this summer. It is there, they noted, that the final tax bill will be written; everything until then is mere prelude. Within hours White House officials picked up on the theme. "There's no special magic in the BTU," said a senior official. "What's important is the final product...
...that will allow in-the-closet gays to serve, with some leeway for letting their orientation be known. This would be a more tolerant version of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy favored by Senator Sam Nunn. Aspin is close to persuading Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to sign on to his proposal, which would almost certainly make the policy acceptable to Nunn and the Congress...
...bright green sign is taped to the glass doors at the entrance to the Indian health facility in Crownpoint, New Mexico: IF YOU HAVE HAD FEVERS, CHILLS, JOINT AND MUSCLE ACHES, COUGHING OR HEADACHES, PLEASE NOTIFY THE NURSE AT THE FRONT DESK IMMEDIATELY. Inside, the waiting room of the 39-bed hospital is jam-packed: the old, the middle-aged, children and even an unattended prisoner in flimsy ankle cuffs...
...making joint decisions with that minority. They said they would never talk with the A.N.C., and they fought almost every election on that basis. We have made them sit down and talk to us. We are now together planning the future South Africa. They have had to unban the A.N.C., to lift the state of emergency, to allow a climate of free political activity, which they had not allowed for more than 40 years. They have released political prisoners, allowed political exiles to return to the country, amended and even repealed repressive legislation, and agreed on the installation...
Direct contracts are issued to the Smithsonian, but many scientists and doctors who work at the center hold joint appointments with Harvard. Researchers prepare experiments and equipment for the spacecraft but do not participate in the launching preparation...