Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom. Four Pillars recently turned the tables and filed suit in China and Taiwan, charging that in the late '80s and early '90s, Avery lured the much smaller Four Pillars (annual sales: $140 million) into discussion about a joint venture in China in order to steal manufacturing information so it could set up its own competing factory. Intriguingly, Four Pillars will argue that by luring the government into the case and helping the FBI set up a sting operation, Avery used the Economic Espionage Act as a competitive weapon...
...something right, something goes wrong. The agency is offering a new, $400-per-child tax credit this year, but thanks to its notoriously complicated paperwork, thousands of eligible taxpayers are failing to take advantage of it. (If you earn more than $75,000, or $110,000 for a joint return, you don't qualify for the full break.) The friendly IRS folks highlighted the problem last week. People check the right box on the 1040 form (column 4 of line 6c), but many forget to enter the $400 on line...
...people would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother, but the mother, she always preferred the boys. Keelin at the beginning of the book is very comfortable. She's leading a sort of asexual existence just having her odd joint sitting on the windowsill. She's solitary, and she's set to sit there and teach in the school she went to as a kid and just take care of her mother. And the mother loves Aisling far more. I don’t want to give away the book...
...Some students form joint concentrations between related fields, such as Computer Science and Mathematics. (This is a combination particularly appropriate for students interested, as I happen to be, in foundational or theoretical issues in computer science.) But joint concentrations are not meant as an escape hatch for students simply unable to make up their minds between unrelated alternatives. There are no joint concentrators in Astrology and Music, though there are Astrology concentrators who pursue their musical interests, both curricularly and extracurricularly, at a very high level...
Some students form joint concentrations between related fields, such as Computer Science and Mathematics. (This is a combination particularly appropriate for students interested, as I happen to be, in foundational or theoretical issues in computer science.) But joint concentrations are not meant as an escape hatch for students simply unable to make up their minds between unrelated alternatives. There are no joint concentrators in Astrology and Music, though there are Astrology concentrators who pursue their musical interests, both curricularly and extracurricularly, at a very high level...