Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joint team of Soviet economists and American scholars--including three Harvard professors--are meeting this week to develop a plan to restructure the Soviet Union's economy while allowing for the growth of democracy there...
...press conference held Monday at the Kennedy School of Government, members of the joint team said they hope the talks will produce a process of exchange whereby democratic reforms in the Soviet Union would be rewarded with economic aid from the West...
...lack of military expertise, the Senate easily confirmed him as Secretary of Defense after rejecting Bush's first choice, John Tower. Cheney quickly showed his mettle by publicly censuring the Air Force chief of staff for appearing to negotiate strategic missile-deployment options with Congress without authorization. In joint TV appearances with General Colin Powell during the gulf war, Cheney impressed Bush -- not to mention millions of other Americans -- as a captain in command...
...General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had serious personal reservations -- as did Schwarzkopf and other senior U.S. officers -- about President Bush's determination to switch from defense to offense in the gulf. Powell, in particular, is portrayed as worrying about the possibility of getting bogged down in a costly, open-ended land war, and as being "in real agony" about Bush's often inflamed rhetoric. Woodward writes that Powell, like most Democrats in Congress, for some time favored a defensive deployment in Saudi Arabia plus economic sanctions against Iraq. Once he had received his orders...
...What do you think about the joint statement calling for a new union treaty that Gorbachev and the leaders of nine of the country's 15 republics signed two weeks...