Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What is the objective of your visit?" asked the National Security Adviser. With no more encouragement than that, Yeltsin launched into a hortatory rhapsody about how U.S. business could "rescue" perestroika by building 1 million apartments and an entire service sector for the Soviet economy; he also plugged a joint mission to Mars. He talked virtually nonstop for a full hour...
...Nicaraguan election approached, both sides wanted to lock the other into accepting the outcome. In the joint communique following their Feb. 10 meeting, Baker and Shevardnadze pledged both nations would "respect the results of free and fair elections." But the U.S. had another concern. Washington questioned whether the Sandinistas would actually transfer power if they lost. Aronson asked if the Soviets would continue denying weapons to the Sandinistas if Violeta Chamorro won. Pavlov said...
...foreign economic pressure has deep historical roots. In the mid-1700s the English East India Company subjugated the region and ran it as a private domain for a century. "The U.S. must realize it's a question of national pride," says H.S. Singhania, co-chairman of the Indo- U.S. Joint Business Council. "We cannot have the U.S. dictating our economic policy...
Ironically, India has found an ally in a U.S. company. After four years of negotiations, PepsiCo last week began to sell its soft drinks in India. Over the next ten years, PepsiCo and its Indian partners are expected to invest $1 billion in their joint venture. As a result, Christopher Sinclair, president of Pepsi-Cola International, has urged U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills not to impose any economic sanctions against India. Says Sinclair: "We feel that punitive actions by the U.S. would only derail things." Hills has until July 16 to make her decision...
...joint team of FBI and CIA officials journeyed to Paris to inform the French government that the scheme had been uncovered, and the Gallic moles were promptly fired from the U.S. companies. Bull, which is competing desperately with American rivals for market share in Europe, denies any relationship with DGSE. Last year the company made a legitimate acquisition of U.S. technology when it agreed to purchase Zenith's computer division for $496 million...