Word: jointed
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...Voshchanov, press & secretary to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In a series in the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, he quoted extensively from confidential party memorandums revealing that in 1988, eager to acquire foreign currency, the Communists had set up an "invisible party economy" that permitted them to hide money in overseas joint ventures and launder it through a network of domestic and foreign commercial banks. According to another story in the paper, since last December alone, the party has sold 280 billion rubles for $12 billion in U.S. currency, which was then funneled through party-controlled Soviet banks to secret accounts...
...official award ceremony will be held this spring in Washington D.C. at a joint meeting of The American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers...
Because Colombia recently set up a new constitution which went into effect this past summer, McGillis says now is a prime time for developing reforms for the legal system in that country. McGillis says the joint team wants to have concrete recommendations about reshaping the criminal code by next month, when the Colombian Congress will next meet...
...overdue. But finally last week the Palestinians put their R.S.V.P. in writing. Yes, they would attend the Middle East peace conference organized by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, the first full-scale meeting between Israel and the Arabs in almost two decades. That cleared the way for a joint U.S.-Soviet announcement that Presidents Bush and Gorbachev would both attend the opening of the much anticipated parley next week in Madrid. They had already sent out formal invitations to the parties, who had all, more or less, said yes. Declared a plainly pleased Baker: "This is an important...
...basis of the proposed army is a 4,200-troop Franco-German brigade based near Stuttgart that can barely be called a joint force. Its soldiers carry different rifles, wear their own national uniforms and operate in separate battalions. Expanding so fractious a concept to an army corps of about 35,000 to 40,000 soldiers could take years. Creating a full army could take a generation. By that time, with any luck, it will no longer be needed...