Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...U.A.E. OPEC Secretary-General Subroto called Saddam's means "alarming." By threatening the overproducers, Saddam brought tensions in the Persian Gulf to their highest level since the Iran-Iraq war. So startled was the U.A.E. that it took the unprecedented step of asking the U.S. to conduct joint military maneuvers, a request Washington granted, sending two aerial refueling planes and six combat ships for the exercise. When Baghdad denounced this "imperialist plot," the Emirates, more shaken than ever, denied anything out of the ordinary had taken place...
...Less than three years later, SBK turned around and sold the catalog to Thorn EMI, the British entertainment giant, for $295 million. As part of that deal, EMI gave $30 million to Koppelman and Bandier (Swid had left to start his own firm) to start a record division. The joint venture allows SBK to keep its discoveries on its own label, which is distributed...
...joint task force set up by the two Germanys to investigate terrorist activities by East Germany's ousted communist government is also examining a suspected Libyan connection. A Palestinian involved in the bombing is reportedly imprisoned for other charges in West Berlin. The East Germans are said to have granted visas to a known Libyan hit man and his Palestinian accomplices even though they knew the Libyans planned a bombing...
...attack against even a fraction of these targets "would cause the Soviet Union to cease functioning as a society," says Stanford professor Scott Sagan, a former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet arms expert Janne Nolan of the Brookings Institution contends that the "American political leadership is not aware of the enormous destruction envisioned in the military plans." The point is illustrated by official estimates of what would happen to the U.S. if the Soviets launched a surprise attack of 3,000 warheads, a mere quarter of their inventory. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that between...
...time, however, the real clout rests with the oil-rich countries. Cut off from its former sources of supply and struggling from a failed bid to buy Getty Oil, Texaco turned to its former junior partner, Aramco, for help in 1988. The result was Star Enterprise, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Texaco and Aramco, for which the Saudis paid $1.8 billion. The venture operates three U.S. refineries and markets fuel at 11,450 filling stations...