Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more likely to take. A renegade state could sneak a nuclear bomb into New York City in a truck or the hold of a freighter, or simply lob a Scud-like missile full of lethal germs into Manhattan from 20 miles offshore, neatly passing underneath the shield. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff "worry more about a suitcase bomb going off in one of our cities," Cohen admits. "Very few countries are going to launch an ICBM, knowing that they are going to face virtual elimination...
Armstrong has leveraged his stock's rising value in a series of bold deals, including a joint venture announced last week with the country's No. 1 cable provider, Time Warner (parent company of Time). The deal--which still needs the approval of another Time Warner partner and possibly that of local regulators--would give AT&T exclusive access for 20 years to Time Warner cable systems, which reach 12.6 million subscribers in 33 states. Starting next year, AT&T would provide local-phone service through the same wires that carry cable TV, thus circumventing the regional-Bell local-phone...
...MEDICAL FRONT: After irate medical professionals objected to the decision to fire George Lundberg, the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the A.M.A. said it would allow Lundberg to contribute articles. The editor and the beleaguered organization released a joint statement saying they had "resolved substantive differences...
First impressions are not everything though. "I thought you were a big dork," he says. "And I thought you were a jerk," Evans chimes in during a joint interview...
Seeking to fulfill Rey's final wishes but realizing the lack of written evidence regarding the oral bequests, Ong said she proposed a compromise, whereby 85 percent of the joint account would fund the six additional charities Rey named...