Word: jointly
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...classic British understatement: the two had just initialed a joint declaration that defines in detail the terms under which China will recover sovereignty over the crown colony of Hong Kong in 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease on more than 90% of the territory expires. Two years and two days after China and Britain began the contentious bargaining process, both countries could join at last in a common sigh of relief: the Chinese because they had re-established their claim to the opulent, gold-plated trophy of Hong Kong, just in time to help make their National...
...ensure a smooth transition through the year 2000, a "joint liaison group" composed of 25 representatives from both China and Britain, will set up an office in Hong Kong in 1988. The treaty also stresses that the group cannot interfere directly in Hong Kong's affairs, thus tempering local fears that China may be tempted to tinker with the colony before it formally assumes sovereignty...
...while being part of Communist China, will be based on private enterprise. Under the terms of the accord, to be initialed in Peking this week, Britain will continue to administer the thriving capitalist enclave until 1997. But in 1988 a 13-year transition period will begin during which a "joint liaison committee," selected by Britain and China, will oversee the transition from British rule to self-government under Chinese residents of Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong will become a "special administrative region" of China after 1997, it will maintain its "present system of law" within a capitalist framework...
...bankers and finance ministers, who are not exactly a frivolous group even at the best of times, have been particularly solemn over the past two years as they struggled with the Third World's staggering debt problems. But the financiers arriving in Washington for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were in an upbeat mood. Gone was the near panic that swept the same meeting in 1982 after Mexico declared that it could not make its loan payments on schedule. Now the bankers and ministers share a growing optimism...
...Joint Center has in the past collaborated extensively with government agencies on such projects as two seminars for newly elected mayors, workshops for members of Boston city agencies, and long-term planning sessions involving Boston business and community representatives...