Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book also won a joint award from the New York State Archives and New York Board of Regents...
...North Korea threatens that U.S. pressure to back off from testing a long-range missile may force it to push the button, military maneuvers by two U.S. allies in the East China Sea aren?t likely to ease tensions. Japan and South Korea continued an unprecedented joint naval exercise Wednesday, in response to North Korea?s increasingly belligerent missile-testing program. But acting crazy is an important part of the reclusive communist state?s effort to secure aid from Washington and its allies. "Making themselves a security problem is North Korea?s primary leverage in dealing with the world," says...
...river, these two behave toward each other with the casual care of brothers; they intuit each other's presence, but they rarely speak, except in a code born of their joint mission and of the fact that "we talk 10 times a day." One will say, "Smith called. He didn't like what we wrote." The other will say, "Did you read what the EPA said yesterday... Once they acknowledge that, they're screwed." I have no idea what they're talking about, but everything has the tone of frontline bulletins. Standing beside Kennedy near the bow, I realize...
...water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Retiring him 10 months rather than 12 months from now is based entirely on the fact that they badly want to ensure his replacement is General Joe Ralston." Ralston, who became vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when his nomination for chairman was withdrawn after he confessed to an extramarital affair, would be forced by law to retire once his present command expires in February unless he gets a new posting within 60 days...
...school worries about pride and friendship and whether one should pack Tic Tac or gum on a date are timeless. On a wedding day three pals (Richard T. Jones, Omar Epps and Taye Diggs) flash back to their youth in Inglewood, Calif., courting the girls and stoutly refusing a joint from the local gangster ("What are you all, Muslims or something?"). The movie is aiming more for American Graffiti than American Pie; it dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh...