Word: jointly
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...animate the Students in the pursuit of literary merit and fame, and to excite in their breasts a noble spirit of emulation there shall be annually a public examination, in the preference of a joint committee of the Corporation and Overseers and such other gentlemen as may be inclined to attend it," a 1790 law reads...
That China would not officially welcome American nuclear weapons was hardly surprising, but the announcement rekindled a touchy controversy. Only two months ago, New Zealand denied the U.S. destroyer Buchanan permission to call at its ports when similar assurances were withheld, with the result that joint maneuvers with New Zealand were canceled by the U.S. State Department , officials quickly denied that Peking had received the sort of no-nuke pledge that had been denied to Wellington. "Our policy on ship visits remains the same," said Spokesman Edward Djerejian. "We will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons...
...volunteer Texas National Guardsmen participating in the Big Pine III war games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...
During his two-day stay, White behaved much as politicians will in media- intensive situations: he shook hands with the men, posed for pictures, gave speeches and signed autographs. He gave a cattle brand in the shape of Texas to Colonel Roy Kimerling, commander of the joint task force participating in the games. Surrounded by ten Army guards, White even inspected a municipal project, a new well dug by his Guardsmen...
...near their border. Those tanks, for instance, were manned by soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week's amphibious landing are not directly linked...