Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many experts on housing at the Kennedy School express strong reservations about the ability of the government to implement such a program. Apgar, who is the associate director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, says private ownership, while useful in some respects, would not ultimately solve all the problems faced by public housing tenants...
...still regulated airlines across the Atlantic are asking the European Commission to reduce red tape, approve joint operating ventures and allow the carriers to raise fares. European airline traffic has dropped 25% since January. Italy's Alitalia, with its transatlantic business down 30%, wants government assistance for workers scheduled to be laid...
...news media have dutifully reported both optimistic and pessimistic assessments over the months but have shown a readier appetite for in-your-face remarks than cautions. That was certainly the experience of retired Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Appearing on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley last August, Crowe predicted, "In a major clash, we'll clean their clocks. If not today, later." He added that both sides would pay a terrible price. His words were quoted (sometimes misquoted) around the world, often with the warning omitted...
...late February or early March. French President Francois Mitterrand said flatly last week that the ground attack would begin "in the next few days, if not later, in any case sometime this month." But some Congressmen attending a closed-door briefing by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell last week came away with a different impression. As Democratic Representative John Spratt of South Carolina put it, "I didn't get the sense anybody is pushing for a hurry-up ground...
...without the implicit ! approval of governments. "A deliberate effort to fail to be informed," says Cordesman, "is just another form of collaboration." In a belated acknowledgment that arming one perceived monster to fight another can boomerang, Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet counterpart, Alexander Bessmertnykh, issued a joint statement last week calling for restraint in the "spiraling arms race" in the Middle East. A gesture, most likely, both too little and too late...