Word: jointly
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...increase would be only half of that permitted by the joint budget resolution Congress approved in May. However the bill, if approved by the Senate, sets spending at a level about $6.6 billion higher than the Administration's budget request and may face veto by President Reagan...
Your article on Evangelist Billy Graham's response to an invitation to a joint speaking appearance in September with Pope John Paul II in Columbia, S.C. ((RELIGION, July 13)), needs to be corrected. At the time of publication, Mr. Graham had hoped that he could rearrange his schedule in order to accept the invitation. Regretfully, he had to decline because of a commitment made nearly two years ago to visit the People's Republic of China. The timing and final briefings for this trip, which are set to begin in September, made it impossible for Mr. Graham to participate...
...sell products abroad without going through the bureaucratic bottleneck of the Foreign Trade Ministry. Part of the hard currency these firms earn from such transactions may be used to buy badly needed foreign equipment and technology. A similar strategy seems to be behind a new law permitting joint ventures with foreign companies. Under regulations adopted last January, a Western firm may hold up to a 49% interest in a venture with a Soviet company...
...flag would take to sea this Wednesday. Aspin replied sharply that this detail had not been classified and that Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole had also mentioned it. Moreover, both Aspin and Dole had been briefed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who made no claim that the date of the first sailing was classified...
North charged up Capitol Hill and took the forum away from the politicians. He played over the heads of the joint congressional committee, aiming his passionate rhetoric and complex charm at the 50 million people watching on television, the real audience and jury at the proceedings. The obscure, middle-level NSC staff member -- said to be a "loose cannon," an aberrant zealot from the White House basement -- did not behave like a guilty character caught at misdeeds, like a raccoon startled by a flashlight in the middle of the night...