Word: jointly
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Under the terms of the document, the U.S. will offer to help finance development of the Lavi, a new Israeli fighter jet. Other facets of the arrangement may include placing U.S. military equipment in Israel, holding top-level military exchanges, conducting joint exercises and sharing worldwide intelligence data. The U.S. may be even more generous with its financial aid, partly by turning a larger percentage of its huge annual subsidy (an estimated $2.6 billion for fiscal 1984) into outright grants...
Henry E. Catto, Assistant Defense Secretary until he resigned in September, wrote after Grenada: "Unhappily, the average Joint Chiefs of Staff member has all the public relations sense of Attila the Hun. And deep in his psyche is a feeling that the press cost lives, reputations and indeed victory by its access and reporting in Viet Nam." That unhappy war will continue to haunt history as long as the wrong lessons are drawn from it. There are better precedents...
Bankers believe that financial services will eventually be part of futuristic home information packages like Viewtron that supply everything from recipes to movie reviews. Therefore they are scrambling to organize joint ventures with communications firms. Four aggressive regional banks, Florida's Southeast, Ohio's Bane One, North Carolina's Wachovia and California's Security Pacific, have banded together to develop the financial services for Viewtron. Next spring some 20 institutions, including Milwaukee's First Wisconsin National Bank and Seattle's Peoples Bank, will team up with Automatic Data Processing and the Times Mirror communications...
Another admirer his dissertation adviser Markham Professor of Government Edward C. Banfield for example remembers an incident from the late 1960s. When Wilson served as chairman of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard...
...regarded as a political act on the part of the Joint Center, {Wilson} met the criticism very effectively by himself organizing a symposium on urban renewal, "Banfield says. He calls Wilson's handling of the situation "rather statesmanlike," the type of performance that makes people think of him as a possible dean...