Word: jointly
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...reorganization of the Pentagon's high command. The package he accepted was proposed by a blue-ribbon panel led by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, which was set up in the wake of scandals over military procurement. The most important recommendations: to strengthen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution by commanders in the field. The President also backed the creation of a "procurement czar," an Under...
...week's end, when an explosion shattered an aviation oil storage tank at a joint U.S.-Korean air base at Osan, 37 miles south of Seoul, U.S. military authorities were not immediately able to determine what caused the blast. Fifteen people were killed, including a U.S. serviceman. Meanwhile, both Chun and his opponents pursued their campaigns while moving in opposite directions. As the demonstrators were gathering at Taegu, Chun was setting off for Europe as the first Korean leader in history to make state visits to Britain, France and West Germany. The trip will almost certainly buoy the country...
Dennis Thompson, a former chairman of Princeton's politics department, has accepted a joint tenure position in the Department of Government and at the Kennedy School of Government...
...career families are less mobile; joint career and location choices are more complex," the Spence report concludes. "Anticipating and trying to alleviate future stress, two-career families will try to make choices of jobs and locations that present reasonable opportunities for both spouses. Some will plan ahead, sometimes quite far ahead. They will make joint decisions that are neither individual's first choice, viewed narrowly from the standpoint of the job and the environment....Moving has higher personal costs for a couple when both work...
...wrote many contingency plans," a top CIA officer told TIME last week. Among them: a joint U.S.-Egyptian operation designed to topple Gaddafi, a plan to work with the French that included offensive actions from both the Mediterranean and Chad, and covert action involving other North African governments. McFarlane dispatched Poindexter, then his deputy, to confer with Egypt and other allies in the Middle East and Europe. "We even approached Israel," the intelligence official notes. But the response was discouraging; intelligence reports showed little chance of fomenting a coup within Libya, and none of the ideas jelled. "We learned...