Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anticipating that Soviet largesse will eventually dry up altogether, the Cubans have begun to look elsewhere for help. Thanks to a law on joint ! ventures, West Europeans are pouring millions of dollars into the Cuban tourist industry, building luxury oceanside hotels. The Soviets now tell the U.S. that the sooner it lifts its trade embargo against Cuba, the sooner perestroika and demokratizatsiya will arrive on the island...
...cringe at the way Pete Rose, his skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home Plate by James Reston Jr. (HarperCollins; $19.95) is a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never quite works. The irony is too heavyhanded, the juxtapositions too stark, the character of Rose too pathetic...
Helen H. Vendler, Porter University professor, and Nicolaas Bloemburg, Gade University professor emeritus, were appointed by the Joint Committee to investigate the grievance. The committee is expected to make a decision by July...
John R. Pitkin, a Cambridge resident who co-chairs the Joint Committee for Neighborhood-Harvard Consultation and sits on the mayor's task force, says he hopes the committees that resulted from the agreement will help address the issues not dealt with in the November negotiations...
...University is now so decentralized that there is little of what Rudenstine calls "connective tissue" between the separate schools. As a result, there is little capacity for joint academic planning between the various faculties...