Word: jointness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Venter says he can do the job faster, cheaper and just as well. In May he announced a joint effort between his center, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and Perkins-Elmer Applied Biosystems that he says will decipher virtually the entire human genome in three years and cost less than $300 million...
...such solitary crank use isn't the norm in Billings. Crank is a party drug here, a social thing, smoked, injected and snorted by tight-knit groups holed up in houses behind blacked-out windows, talking nonstop about their hopes and dreams and smoking a joint now and then or drinking a beer to mellow out the high...
...Bosnia to keep him from being deposed," Klayman suggested. According to Klayman, that's not all "they" may have done. "The hole in Brown's head looked an awful lot like a .45-caliber wound." How it got there he can't say, but pressure from "the White House, Joint Chiefs, Commerce and Transportation departments" surely headed off an autopsy. Is Clayman suggesting that the White House had Brown murdered and then engineered a plane crash that killed 34 other people to cover up the murder? "We never used the word murder," he says carefully. He does charge, however, that...
...mere possibility of such a Clinton-Jiang agreement has officials in Taipei frazzled. China hopes to use better relations with the U.S. as bait, to entice Washington into a joint effort to put pressure on Taiwan. Taiwan is worried that some arm-twisting could be coming. "We believe the U.S. should not discuss the three nos with Beijing," says Chen Chien-jen, director-general of the Government Information Office in Taipei. Adds Vice Foreign Minister David Lee: "We don't want this written down because we don't want Beijing to interpret what independence means...
...long-running Holocaust reparations dispute isn't over yet. Switzerland's three biggest banks decided Friday to offer a maximum of $600 million to settle class actions from concentration camp inmates and their descendants. "By all legitimate criteria," said a joint statement from Credit Suisse, Swiss Bank Corp and Union Bank of Switzerland, "this is a fair offer...