Word: jointedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...approval in June 2002 to 34% today, according to a poll for Die Welt. His Social Democrats face almost certain defeat in a string of local elections later this year. "All three men are very pragmatic," says Cord Jakobeit, a political scientist at the University of Hamburg. "If a joint initiative makes them look better on the domestic front, they will seize it." In the past, Germany and France only needed each other to look good. Monetary union and the euro itself are parade examples of big changes they led. But with enlargement, "they have lost this precious status," says...
...decisions and then serve us up the meal." So in focusing on the E.U.'s litany of economic woes - underfunded state pensions, low productivity, slow growth, high unemployment - this week's summit will intrude upon sensitive territory for the smaller states. The Gang of Three will endorse a joint paper on these topics they can present to other E.U. leaders in March. One diplomat in Berlin says Schröder particularly wants his domestic reform package to get a Blair seal of approval this week, to help him sell it at home. But is another report good for anything more...
...internet and who settled out of court. To the tune of “I fought the law (and the law won),” they each defiantly proclaimed that they would still download free music online, and they would do so legally. They owe their defiance to a joint promotion between the soft drink company and Apple Computer: one out of every three bottles of Pepsi’s beverages now sold wins a free song download from the latter company’s wildly popular (though thus far not terribly profitable) iTunes Music Store. If iTunes?...
When Pepsi and Apple announced their plan for the joint campaign last October, as the iTunes software first became available to Windows users, it seemed a particularly bold and risky venture: Pepsi is placing 100 million of the free songs under its bottle caps, and yet Apple had only sold a small fraction of that number to its devoted Mac user base. At that time, the software’s profitability when it reached a larger and more competitive market was very much uncertain. As of early this year, while it’s still difficult to tell, the numbers...
...Moscow rock concert and outside a luxury hotel opposite the Kremlin. Many of the attacks are the work of suicide bombers, often women. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest atrocity, but Putin and his allies had no doubt as to who was to blame. At a joint press conference with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, a rattled Putin accused Chechnya's deposed President and secessionist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, of being behind the bombing. Putin also denounced European politicians who had earlier called for negotiations with Maskhadov. "Russia does not negotiate with terrorists," he said. "It annihilates them...