Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even for sisters, Rania and Soha Rida shared a lot. They were happily planning a joint wedding since each was engaged to an EgyptAir steward. But hours before the EgyptAir Flight 990's fatal crash on Oct. 31, neither of their prospective mates was in a cheery mood. Rania says that in a telephone chat, Hassan Farouk expressed misgivings about the trip, muttering about "technical problems." Soha told an Egyptian weekly that Mohammed Galal was dreading a "very bad flight...
Opportunities for MIT students to study abroad are rare because of the school's high number of required courses. The joint curricula that will be developed under the Cambridge-MIT Institute, along with the aid of distance-learning technology, will allow students to take their classes on the other side of the pond...
...respectively. But the international market can't seem to get enough of buxom women in bikinis who enjoy a little kickboxing on the side. Following the lucrative example set by Baywatch, which airs in 144 countries, these action shows have gone global, and many of the new arrivals are joint productions of American and overseas companies. "The international market is what makes these shows work," says Jeff Dellin, vice president of research and program strategy for Studios USA, which produces and distributes Xena. "Domestic is the gravy." V.I.P., for instance, is already translated into 10 languages, all of which, somehow...
...When told of an instance last year when Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 mistook astrology for astronomy, Kirshner seems incredulous at first. In an e-mail, Lewis explained to undergraduates that joint concentrations should combine fields that are at least somewhat related to one another, and as an example of a difficult combination, he cited astrology and music...
...nation's only student-run shelter, raising the $800,000 for the project was a joint effort between students, the University and the church...