Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those activities could include joint ventures,limited partnerships, wholly or partially ownedsubsidiaries and offshore ventures, as well asticket and concession sales at sporting events...
Face it, folks: Tommy's sucked. The perpetually undercooked burgers, as the staff rightly notes, hardened our arteries, and the fetid French fries sat heavily in out stomachs like so many rotten matzoh balls. Sure, Crimson editors have frequented the joint for two-and-a-half decades, but not for the oily atmosphere, astronomical prices, unfriendly help or intolerable faux-cuisine...
...GROWING NUMBER OF SPIES IN THE U.S. ARE SPECIALIZING IN stealing business information. Operatives from Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba have been joined by agents from Japan, Western Europe, the Arab nations and several other countries. The FBI also reports that onetime KGB operatives are going into joint ventures with Western companies. It is not clear in many cases whether they are seeking cover to steal classified information or simply trying to learn the tricks of the commercial trade. Says Wayne Gilbert, chief of FBI counterintelligence: "They're used to dealing in the international community, so they make very desirable...
...himself on his unique ability to bring together at a quiet conference experts who would not ordinarily meet or sit down for a serious session. Last week the prince flew to Strasbourg, France, to learn more about the workings of the European Community, then to Brussels to address a joint British and European environmental group...
...spook-proof stock market, plummeting nearly 8%. From London, where Patten coincidentally got a ringing endorsement from his friend Prime Minister John Major, Zhu Rongji, the otherwise reform-minded Vice Premier and likely successor to hard-line Premier Li Peng, said the plans violate the bedrock 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration preserving Hong Kong's capitalist ways after the 1997 hand over. He added darkly, "People ask whether we have to stick to the Joint Declaration, or whether it should go with the wind...