Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Island spawned new safety regulations. The catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986 set off a public outcry in most of Western Europe, forcing some governments to curtail nuclear programs -- but not France. Five reactors will be added to the national grid in this decade. The Superphenix fast-breeder reactor, a joint venture with Italy and Germany, is working, though it has been dogged by technical problems and will never recover its $4.5 billion development cost...
Senate confirmation for a second term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a virtual certainty, but COLIN POWELL can expect some uncomfortable moments along the way. Several members of the Armed Services Committee, led by Georgia's Sam Nunn, recognize Powell as a primary source for Bob Woodward's controversial book The Commanders. The Senators will ask the general whether he truly preferred economic sanctions to war against Iraq, as the book claims, and whether it was appropriate for him to disclose the confidential advice he gave to the President...
...should meet at the end. We certainly favor a Palestinian delegation chosen by the Palestinian people, because you can't have people representing them except those of their own choice. However, if there is a problem there and it can be overcome only by providing an umbrella of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, then we will do that based on talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization and with the Palestinians. A real Palestinian nationalist in my book is somebody who is hanging on to his land, and has been enduring hardship for years and years, much more so than somebody...
...country views its new challenges as especially dicey. Its postwar identity depended on the postwar system, which has come unglued. Mitterrand's ambitions for E.C. political union and a joint defense policy are central to his design of preserving France's status as the Continent's anchor. Washington-based analyst Jenonne Walker notes, "De Gaulle was never willing to meld France into a Europe able to act as a unit. Mitterrand is willing to do that." Trickier is the question of whether the French people, fearing for their national soul, will go along...
Need a free meal, a joint, a spiritual jump-start? Here's the Looney Saloon, Anni's Turtle Tea Tree, the Jesus Camp, the Faerie Camp (from which, periodically, a conga line of guys in net stockings and bras erupts, followed by a very male little old lady in a granny dress, carrying a purse), the Contradiction Koffee Kitchen, the No Guns Tipi, the Positively Peaceful Anti- Natural Flatfood Forum (pancakes here), the Om Tea House and Pooh Corner (a latrine). Lovin' Ovens gives away bread, and Julie, Dianne and Danielle, from Quebec, help you choose a flower essence...