Word: jointness
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...Asia. In fact, the history of cross-border water disputes has been surprisingly conciliatory so far. India and Pakistan have fought three wars and currently point nuclear weapons at each other, yet the Indus Waters Treaty - which divvies up the two countries' trans-boundary waterways, overseen by a joint commission - has survived for decades. And even though nations can be quite possessive over water (India and Bangladesh have skirmished repeatedly over the shared Mahananda River), they trade it all the time in other forms like rice and grain that require millions of gallons to grow...
Statewide legislation on the topic is currently pending in the Massachusetts joint judiciary committee, and local laws have already been adopted by Boston and Cambridge...
...have four different uniforms. If you have the true spirit of joint operations, we don't need a separate Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps. I'm a Marine. Ooo-rah! I went to Paris Island. I get it, I got it! I love my history. But it's now time to look to the future. Put them all under one regime...
...While enough to clinch a joint-second place finish in the Ivy League behind champions-elect Columbia, it was scant consolation for the defeated holders, left to rue what might have been...
...doing so, the Cinématheque explained in a statement, it "ensured that the law is respected and that, above all, everyone realizes the absurdity of this substitution." Cinématheque officials aren't alone in their annoyance. Unions representing French film directors and critics issued a joint denunciation of what they called "unbearable revisionism" behind the moves and "censorship" of the beloved Tati's much-adored pipe...