Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khalifa who designed many of Kuwait's successful investment strategies, and Khalifa who reorganized Kuwait's oil industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is Khalifa who is at the center of his country's most ambitious effort: the attempt to reinvent Kuwait. If implemented in its entirety, the intricate and politically tricky plan could transform the demography, character and economy of what everyone involved is calling New Kuwait...
...playing a key role in developing such technology as the microprocessor. But the company has failed to convert high science into financial success. Its first commercial computers, a series of midsize machines called 3Bs, flopped largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number of minor acquisitions, including Paradyne, a modem maker, and Istel, which customizes computer systems. But AT&T never managed to capture more...
Such sentiments were buttressed by the testimony of a chorus of blue-ribbon experts, including seven former Defense Secretaries and two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who all counseled temperance. No witness was more compelling than the government's own William Webster, director of the CIA, who, to the amazement of many, departed from the Administration's line when he projected that the embargoes would begin to bog down Saddam's military in three to nine months...
...Earle G. Wheeler, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that America would lose everything it had fought for in the Cold War if it did not fight to the finish in Vietnam. Last week, two former chairs, William Crowe and David Jones, told Congress that America should wait for the sanctions to work...
...technology -- some completed and some prevented -- between Western countries and Iraq. Two years ago, a British engineering firm in Coventry, Matrix-Churchill International, was found by British customs to have exported precision lathes and supplied training to Iraqi engineers. There was nothing illegal about either transaction. In March a joint Anglo-American sting operation foiled an attempt by Iraqi agents to ship to Iraq through London's Heathrow Airport U.S.-made electronic capacitors that could be used in a nuclear bomb...