Word: jointed
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...company. Aerospace firms are forming joint ventures and seeking government subsidies to foot the research bill. NASA is spending $284 million over five years to develop technologies that U.S. companies can apply to their work on the HSCT. Rival U.S. aircraft builders Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have teamed up to design an airframe, as have British Aerospace and France's Aerospatiale, the same partnership that built the Concorde. American jet-engine builder Pratt & Whitney is working closely with its nemesis, General Electric, to build a power plant that is quieter, more economical and clean burning. France's Snecma and Britain...
...Twenty-eight senior Soviet military officers -- generals, admirals and colonels -- assembled for a two-week crash course on the relationship between the armed forces and the civilian government in the U.S. "Democracy is not an easy form of government for military professionals," said General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We subordinate ourselves totally to the will of the people and their elected representatives...
...face a situation in which the country is dividing up. There may be in the future no common currency, and many central banks, no culture of freedom or entrepreneurship, nothing. I do believe that it's very important to strengthen the development of a market economy and joint ventures; it's why I'm eager to be allowed to do more private-sector investment there. But even < if the European Bank is allowed to do that, no one can say that problems will be resolved overnight. It will be a very long process, and the coming years are going...
...Away rises above mere nostalgia, but it doesn't avoid romanticizing the past. The Bedford children are a bit too precocious in racial matters (15- year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would...
This, she insists, is not surprising. When Harris underwent chemotheraphy treatments her doctors prescribed traditional medicines, but "none of it worked," she says. "[But then] I would smoke a joint and I was fine...