Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industrial world is placing in the way of progress, the developing nations might see biodiversity as a resource that, if properly inventoried and managed, could generate real income. The idea, says Thomas Lovejoy, a tropical ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution, is "to start thinking about the problem as a joint venture in which both sides have property rights...
Ignatiev brought a political passion to his new life. He was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements, he says. Later, when he decided that unions functioned as part of management, he tried to facilitate more informal relations through shop floor discussions and joint community activities...
After listening to the generals and admirals for several hours, I realized that many of us on the outside have oversimplified the terms of the debate that is going on within the defense establishment. In "the Tank," the mahogany-paneled room where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to thrash out their problems, global unilateralism and collective internationalism do not seem quite so much like a strategic dichotomy, an either-or choice that the U.S. must make now and live with for decades. Instead, the chiefs want to ; keep all options open. When necessary, they want...
...stay, we met with General Colin Powell, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He was much less grudging about multilateral operations in general and the U.N. in particular. In response to more questions from Lewis, Powell recalled that the U.N.'s founders established a Military Staff Committee, composed of representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council, to direct peacekeeping activities. Noting that the committee had been "moribund" through the cold war, Powell said he would now like to see it made "more relevant...
...seat-of-the-pants introduction to America's highway misery, try rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther along in a newly rebuilt section, potholes already lurk, like so many blacktop booby traps...