Word: jointness
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Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon was sending an additional 36 combat aircraft to the Gulf. He said more ground troops also would...
...latest statistics from the Joint Committee on Taxation confirm what has been a long and disturbing trend. "The burden on the middle class has always been outsize," says TIME columnist Daniel Kadlec. "The last tax reform law simply did not include enough people." While it's good that low-income households are benefiting from tax breaks, Congress has failed to consider that married cops and schoolteachers, in households where both spouses work, can now jointly earn $100,000 a year. "But in big cities like New York or Chicago, that hardly makes them rich," says Kadlec...
Berkowitz said the Board of Overseers and the Joint Committee on Appointments remain possible authorities to whom he might direct his complaint. He has also not ruled out the option of suing the University if the Docket Committee finds against him, he said...
Colin L. Powell could have done just about anything after he retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: head a think tank, sign on as CEO of a big corporation, some say even run for President of the U.S. What he chose to do instead was to help children become happy, productive citizens. By creating America's Promise--the Alliance for Youth, Powell launched a national movement that has historically competitive organizations in the nonprofit sector collaborating for the first time on hundreds of programs...
...world. The president of Conservation International, who is also a first-rate primatologist (A.B. Dartmouth, summa; Ph.D. Harvard), is part scientist, part activist, part barker and part kid. The kid, recently turned 49, is the same one who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., under the joint tutelage of a mother interested in the natural world, and Tarzan; Mittermeier continues to collect Tarzan novels and memorabilia. He and Peter A. Seligmann, CI's founder and chief executive, have gained an enormous amount of money, respect and attention for their 11-year-old organization, based in Washington. When Mittermeier...