Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Lotus Development Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., announced a joint venture with Equifax, one of the country's largest credit-rating bureaus, to sell a < personal-computer product that would contain information on the shopping habits of 120 million U.S. households, it received 30,000 calls and letters from individuals asking that their names be removed from the data base. The project was quietly canceled in January...
...finished Saddam's regime. To many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf on Feb. 27 to tell him the President was about to order hostilities stopped...
...Joint Committee of the Judiciary approved the bill last Wednesday after a hearing which saw none of the bill's threatened opposition materialize...
...ever expanding lexicon of corporate jargon you may now add "risk- sharing partnership." That's how Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz describes arrangements like the one between his company and Germany's Deutsche Airbus/ Deutsche Aerospace, which announced plans for a joint research effort last week. The risk the two giant jetmakers may share: development of a supersonic high-speed civil transport, an updated and larger Concorde-type airliner that could whisk 300 passengers at twice the speed of sound...
Though there is no indication that the Kurds are coordinating military tactics with the insurrectionists in the south, both Kurdish and Shi'ite groups belong to the Joint Action Committee formed by Iraqi opposition organizations in December. Still, the ambitions of the Kurds, who are Sunnis, and the Shi'ites, who want a fundamentalist government in Baghdad, are hopelessly in conflict. Last week Talabani said bluntly, "There will not be an Islamic regime in Iraq." Meanwhile, the Shi'ites suspect that in victory Kurdistan would bolt from the republic at the first opportunity. Outsiders are equally skeptical that the Kurds...