Word: jointly
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...Indian scholar known for his interdisciplinary approach to the social sciences has been offered a joint tenure position in the Economics and Philsophy departments...
...position would be the only joint tenureship in economics and philosophy. Under the proposal, Sen would split his time evenly among the two areas...
RISING COLLEGE costs and diminishing federal aid threaten to turn the American system of financing higher education into a national soap opera, "Graduates in Debt." A report released last week by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee warns that while student borrowing under federal programs has tripled in the last decade, federal grants and scholarships have decreased by 62 percent. This, the report says, threatens to overburden a generation of college graduates...
Last week, however, a congressional study proposed a set of economic causes of poverty. The report by the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Democrats, declared that the Administration has wrongly ignored "weak trends in employment and wages" from 1979 to 1985 as primary factors in keeping more than 33 million Americans below the poverty line, which for a family of four stands at $10,989 a year. It linked jobless statistics from the same period to show that two-parent households accounted for 45% of the rise in the number of poor. Single-parent families made up only...
...those doubts. Before visiting her in Manila in May, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz privately expressed doubts about her ability to govern. Afterward, and ever since, the normally poker-faced Secretary has fairly glowed at the very mention of Aquino's name. When Cory spoke before a joint session of Congress, she received the most thunderous reception given any foreign leader in more than a generation. Indeed, the entire U.S. tour, observed a State Department official who accompanied her, was "staggeringly successful. She had hard-bitten politicians eating out of her hand...