Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some have complained that military spending has received an inappropriate boost, we are comforted that steps are being taken to improve our military preparedness. Just weeks ago, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Congress to report that our forces did not possess sufficient resources to handle the proliferation of threats in the international arena. In this year of surplus, we are lucky to have an opportunity to improve our security capabilities without damaging social programs...
Farmer helped begin the joint efforts of the IHSJ and the EAPSEC when he became the first MacArthur Fellow to donate his entire award to the health and education program...
...makes sense that the solution to the image problem came from the biggest fur producer in the world: Saga Furs of Scandinavia, the joint marketing and public relations organization of the fur farmers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia provides more than half the world's fur pelts. Ten years ago, Saga opened its International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen...
...also required to set aside an additional 11,000 acres in no-cut buffers next to streams critical to the survival of the endangered coho salmon. It is unfortunate that you characterized what we achieved as saving a few "scraps" of wildlife habitat. BYRON SHER, State Senator Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Headwaters Forest California Legislature Sacramento, Calif...
...nighttime hustlers-even more than the daytime ones-always want something: you buy them a beer, they'll sell you a joint. As Joey, a disgruntled Peace Corps worker in Kingston said, "I've never met a Jamaican who didn't want money, an American visa, or sex...or all three." One of the more bizarre propositions made by local men to male tourists is what Doctor Fabulous calls a "Hexchange"--"I'll trade you one of my black women for one of your white women." This sort of racial sexual fantasy would probably be best left to middle-aged...