Word: jointly
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Part of the joint Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1963, the Bureau is internationally recognized as the first source of information on all types of astronomical observations, whether amateur or professional...
Negative case: The debates are not really debates at all, but joint press conferences in which the candidates spout the same canned speeches that they give on the stump. They put a premium on glibness and showmanship, and greatly penalize a candidate for verbal slips or unpolished gestures, neither of which has much relevance to governing. They prevent rather than promote any real discussion of complex issues, allowing candidates to get away with simplistic and/or distorted presentations that cannot be refuted effectively in the time allowed...
...could act on to convince the Soviets of its seriousness about resuming broader talks. The steps are to negotiate a ban on the militarization of space, a mutual freeze on nuclear weaponry, ratification by the U.S. of two pending test-ban treaties signed in the mid-1970s and a joint pledge to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons, a promise that is already embraced by the Soviets. Said Chernenko: "If what the President has said about readiness to negotiate is not merely a tactical move, I wish to state that the Soviet Union will not be found wanting...
...joint venture of Aston Martin Lagonda and Tickford, a design-and-engineering company, the limo is a stretch version of a Tickford Lagonda sedan. Aston Martin Spokesman Grahame Butterworth says the new car is for the "person who wants the most expensive, absolute ultimate status symbol." The company seems to believe that such buyers will be rare. It plans to manufacture just twelve Tickford Lagonda cars a year. Last week the firm had several serious inquiries and one solid buyer...
...Kamoya Kimeu, head of Anthropologist Richard Leakey's proficient fossil collecting team, last summer discovered a hominid skull fragment that was 1½ in. square on a rocky slope above northwest Kenya's Nariokotome River. But over a month's time, the expedition crew, under the joint leadership of Leakey, director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Alan Walker, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the Johns Hopkins University medical school, began to turn up other whisky-colored skeletal pieces in the nearby sandy debris: first a rib, then a scapula, then...