Word: jointly
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Though China has nuclear weapons, it has lagged badly in developing atomic energy. The country has no operational reactors, mainly because it refused for many years to import foreign technology. Now the Chinese are looking outward. They have started a joint venture with the government of Hong Kong to build two French-designed reactors by 1991 in Guangdong province. China has also signed a preliminary agreement with France to buy two more reactors. Executives from Westinghouse and General Electric have paid several visits to China in recent months, but deals must await the signing of a U.S.-China nuclear cooperation...
...play any better," said Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin. While all over the rest of the country this morning people will notice the 89-86 score and flippantly comment, "Duke must have really stunk out the joint. They only won by three," the reality is that the Blue Devils, the 25th best team in the country, played well and were forced to play well for all 40 minutes by the tenacious Crimson...
...State of the Union speech is one of the great rituals of the Republic, enacted before the Cabinet, both Houses of Congress, members of the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the diplomatic corps and a prime-time TV audience numbering scores of millions. This speech was pure Reagan: a late draft showed about half the words rewritten in the President's handwriting. Many of his changes softened proposed jabs at the Democrats. On this occasion Reagan wanted to project an image of firm but temperate leadership that is national rather than partisan, while still setting out the points...
...lift was just outside the door. "We finished our homework on the bus," Phil says, "and were off skiing and hiking as soon as we got home. We've spent the major part of our lives in the snow." By the age of nine, the twins were the joint terrors of the Buddy Werner League races, the local punt, pass and schuss contest. Exactly when Phil slid slightly ahead is unclear, but Steve imagines it was at the starting line. "I was born four minutes later," he says, "and I've been trying to catch up ever since...
Eventually the system expanded to five other cities and became a joint venture of Warner and American Express. But last week a key part of Warner Amex's ambitious Qube experiment joined the growing list of cable-TV casualties...