Word: jointing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pishev concluded, "maybe it wouldbe more useful to put together a joint researchproject, a comparative study to assess theproblems caused by a temporary reform projects inEastern Europe...
Implementing such a requirement would send "a message from the University indicating that pro bono work is not just what people do to be nice, but a responsibility of being a member of this profession," said Sandy D. Hauser, a third-year law student who sits on a joint student-faculty public interest advisory committee...
...nearly 100 additional hours of Khrushchev tapes with enough material to make a third book, excerpted in this issue and to be published, like the previous two, by Little, Brown, a part of Time Warner Inc. This time Schecter, now an author and a founding editor of a new joint U.S.-weekly newspaper, did the translating and editing, in collaboration with Vyacheslav Luchkov, a scholar and expert on Soviet psychology. The title, Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes, underscores the connection between Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. Says Talbott: "As though anticipating what Gorbachev tried to do, Khrushchev even uses the word...
...earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be dismissed since President Harry Truman in 1949 sacked Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld and the first military commander to be dismissed since Truman ousted General Douglas MacArthur...
...what the defense chief saw as Dugan's misplaced disdain for Iraqi military capability. Without any hesitation, Cheney picked up the phone and got President Bush's approval for firing Dugan. In yet further evidence of how he runs the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary's next call was to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, advising--but not asking--him of the decision to fire Dugan. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft tried to defuse Dugan's comments by noting that "the general is not in the chain of command," but Iraq did not seem to need mollifying. The general...