Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...companies will form a joint venture to develop an advanced operating system, the basic controlling software of computers, which IBM and Apple will use in their machines and sell to other companies...
...Apple combination has its risks. Most PC joint ventures have foundered, and this one will have to stand the test of vastly differing corporate cultures. Consumers could be disillusioned with both companies at first, viewing Apple as selling out and IBM as consorting with free spirits from the West Coast. But if the collaboration works as well in practice as it is planned on paper, the biggest winners will be the customers. Consumers will no longer have to worry about divided loyalties and incompatible programs. They won't be in Apple's orbit or IBM's, but in the best...
...took control of Addis Ababa and now head of Ethiopia's provisional government. If a new multiparty transitional government -- which was agreed upon last week -- approves, ties between Eritrea and the rest of the country will be defined under an accord that calls for a mutual defense agreement and joint consultative committees on issues of security, economic affairs and the movement of people, goods and services...
Plainly the Slovenes have no interest in maintaining a joint tenancy. Their independence declaration states that Slovenia "will no longer be a part" of the federation and that the Yugoslav constitution will no longer apply. The longing to carve out a separate state is lodged deep in the Slovene soul. Because the republic shares a border with Austria and for centuries was a part of the Habsburg empire, Slovenes feel a greater historic, social and psychological kinship with Europe than with the poorer southern republics, which languished under Ottoman rule. Says Vladimir Mljac, the mayor of the town of Lokev...
...President, the Joint Chiefs, the CIA, an Australian doctor, an idealistic revolutionary, a dazzling lady leftist whose eyes show "a vulnerability that she took such pains to conceal . . ." Len Deighton is at it again, this time in the treacherous jungles of South America. Throughout MAMista (HarperCollins; 410 pages; $21.95), guerrillas attempt to seize control of Spanish Guiana, currently under the thumb of cryptofascist goons. The covert war is rife with betrayal, and ultimately no one is pure in Deighton's 17th spy novel. Intrigues misfire; disease kills more effectively than bullets; and corruption becomes the order of the day. Even...