Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cities will certainly not be unified anytime soon. West Berliners had hoped that next year, when the city celebrates its 750th anniversary, the two sides might enjoy some joint merrymaking. But East Berlin authorities have made it clear that they have no interest in such cooperation. "It's the anniversary celebration of a divorced couple," quips a senior West Berlin planner. Still, the physical barrier has failed to trample the yearning for unity on both sides. When West Germany scored its second goal in the World Cup soccer finals last June, a volley of flares and rockets lit the East...
...joint U.S.-Bolivian drug raids uncovered no big stashes of cocaine, but the landing of American troops apparently panicked traders in Bolivia's volatile coca market. In a price crash, bundles of coca leaves last week brought just $20 apiece; a bundle fetched $700 two years...
...same speech, Gorbachev dangled the prospect of another kind of troop reduction. To help create an "atmosphere of good neighborliness" with China, he said, the Soviets were considering a "substantial" withdrawal of troops from Mongolia and are willing to discuss joint force reductions along the Sino-Soviet frontier...
...years earlier the News had entered into a joint operating agreement with the Times, under which it used the larger paper's business and production services while retaining its own editorial staff. In 1977 it decided to back out of the pact and had to seek donations to keep going. By 1979 the newsroom staff numbered eleven people, the daily edition had withered to 16 pages, and circulation was 11,000, in contrast to 46,000 for the Times...
...Atwood, 79, says that he is far from abandoning the war. "We're in a position to buy them out and relieve them of their losses," he says. But more quietly, Atwood offers a notion that seven short years ago would have been unthinkable: the Times might contemplate a joint operating agreement with the News. "I guess McClatchy's pockets are deeper than mine," he concedes...