Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ABORTION IS NO LONGER A "CATHOLIC ISSUE" IN THE U.S. -- if it ever was. Last September the biggest Lutheran body adopted a moderate pro-life policy. Two months ago, the Southern Baptist Convention filed its first joint Supreme Court brief alongside Catholics, urging abolition of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The United Methodist Church almost pulled out of a pro-choice lobby it helped establish...
...with the fate of the Uruguay Round still up in the air, there are already signs of creeping regionalization in its more exclusive, divisive and competitive form. France and Germany, the dominant powers on the Continent and the principal culprits in the E.C.'s agricultural protectionism, have formed a joint army corps that is clearly intended as a hedge against the day when the U.S. pulls its forces out of Europe...
...been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence that the 380-ship Black Sea Fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, was a "strategic force" that should fall under joint Commonwealth command...
...that the world requires, various activities, particularly habitat destruction, are elevating species extinctions to something like 1,000 times the normal rate. The choice is therefore not between economic activity and environmental luxury, as some have viewed biological conservation, but rather between maximum and diminished potential for economic return. Joint ventures in tropical nations to which they bring their genetic capital, and companies in industrialized nations bring technological capital, would provide serious incentives to protect biological diversity...
...movie's global reach is a large part of the problem. Things would be a lot more exciting if the implacable crazy were constantly hanging around the neighborhood, turning every shadow, shrub and fast-food joint into a potential menace (see Robert De Niro in Cape Fear). And the film's fascination with the CIA's high-tech capabilities for worldwide surveillance of miscellaneous creeps is not as stirring as its makers seem to think. It leads to lots of shots of people intently staring into computer screens or exchanging testy dialogue in small rooms...