Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund may be in for some real trouble, too. Since late last year, a joint task force of the Departments of Labor and Justice has been poring manfully through a stack of documents hundreds of feet thick to unravel the story of the fund's operations. The Labor Department conceivably could order removal of some or all of the fund's 16 trustees -eight union men, eight representatives of management-if it finds investments that were imprudent or entailed conflicts of the trustees' interests. The Justice Department could start criminal prosecutions for fraud...
...Under heavy pressure to reconcile from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose economic assistance is vital to both feuding countries, Egypt and Syria now seemed ready to patch up their differences. The Prime Ministers agreed to stop hostile propaganda against each other, to resume full diplomatic relations, to form a joint commission for working out a strategy toward Israel, and to arrange a summit conference between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syria's Hafez Assad...
While the convoy was on the road, A-7 fighter-bombers, in the air off the coast, were on call in case the column came under attack. When the options for evacuation were discussed in the White House, General George Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained that a civilian-style helicopter ferry would be impossible; any helicopter evacuation would have to be a fullblown military undertaking−and that would be provocative...
...includes amusement parks, shopping centers and office buildings) from his Movietown in Hong Kong is a grandfather of nine children, Run Run Shaw, 68. An older brother, Runme, 74, handles distribution from an alternate base in Singapore. "Everything is me and Runme," is how Run Run Shaw describes their joint holdings, valued at well over $100 million. But it is Run Run who makes all the movies (500 so far) and manages the business...
...Savannah, Ga., with its quaint cobblestone streets and a gracious populace that calls outsiders "visitors," not "tourists." In New Orleans they stroll through the somewhat scruffy but genteel French Quarter (prostitutes will stare from their wrought-iron balconies). Again, at Twain's insistence, they pause at a Dixieland jazz joint and later dine aboard one of the Mississippi steamboats...