Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Malone claims that because he is a man he has been passed over for raises and promotions during his eight months on the job. Last week the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, in a joint filing with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, held a fact-finding session on the case and is likely to make a recommendation next month. "You must be wondering how an ex-Marine could talk sex to men," says Malone. "I had to feed my family. There was a point when I thought Raven was going to take over my life. After I hung...
...potential clincher: Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told the White House that the only way to make sure of Saddam's defeat would be once more to commit American ground troops. British military sources estimate that as many as 100,000 to 200,000 would be required -- and that if they had to be sent into combat, they would take far heavier casualties than last year. Moreover, this time the casualties would be all American: London and such U.S. allies as France and Egypt want no part of the reported scheme. More flag-draped coffins...
...example, groups have already begun meeting to plan a joint protest in expectation of a possible Harvard address by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Such efforts of student mobilization merit praise. Other students should leave their carrels in Lamont to combat the politics of hate in this election season...
...LOGIC that reinforces the willingness to kill civilians while making war seem more clean and precise has seized hold of American military planning and made a hero of men like the "level-headed and astute chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Gen. Colin L. Powell...
...objective (drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait); the suddenness of the ground attack; the complete absence of compromise with Saddam's increasingly submissive peace proposals leading up to the decision to unleash the ground forces; and with the sweeping flanking movements and attacks through weak points; the President and the Joint Chiefs were clearly committed to the time-honored principles of war: mass, objective, surprise, maneuver, security, economy of force and simplicity...