Word: jointed
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...Beverly Hills Hotel. On the other hand, it isn't Sanka-sipping salesmen but well-fed executives who most savor the deduction and spark the most resentment. And after all, why should a single nickel be deductible at a place like The Men's Club, a lavish topless joint in Dallas, where up to 25% of the clientele are on expense accounts...
...protection. Randall Deaver, 25, an unemployed sheet-metal worker in Fort Worth, Texas, was leery of promises that he would have a job in Cancun, Mexico, in three months. When he could find no complaints on file with the Better Business Bureau, he and a friend sent a $295 joint fee. All they got for it was the runaround. "I figured it was scam, but I took a chance," says Deaver with a sigh. "The moral is, of course, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably...
Against that threat, the relevant intelligence agencies mobilized quickly. The news from New York sent the FBI and other federal agencies to Code Red, their highest state of readiness. The FBI activated its Joint Terrorist Task Force, and the CIA turned up the heat at its Counterterrorist Center in Langley, Virginia, a conglomerate of psychiatrists, explosives experts and hostage negotiators. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the agency responsible for investigating the loss and theft of explosives, mobilized its 13-member National Response Team held on 24-hour call in the New York area. They were joined...
Evelyn Brook Higgenbotham, a scholar of Afro-American religious history, has accepted a joint tenured position between the Afro-American Studies Department and the Divinity School, officials said yesterday...
Higgenbotham's husband, U.S. Circuit Judge Leon Higgenbotham, a nationally-known jurist once rumored to be on the short list for Attorney General, will serve in a joint appointment between the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School...