Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the British government was trying to enlist Washington and Pretoria in a joint diplomatic offensive to put pressure on Smith to yield-or resign. The message: the only way Soviet influence in black Africa can be contained is to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of Africa's black majorities...
...forces are on the offensive. Around the nation, power-company officials at press conferences and on podiums have been presenting figures to show that nuclear energy is more practical than other alternatives to oil. In Washington last week, a parade of executives, engineers and federal officials trooped before a joint congressional committee to rebut charges that their installations are unsafe and to convince an increasingly anxious American public that nuclear power plants are necessary...
...like many jazz musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie...
Vagts, who administers the joint law business program in which Spiro was enrolled during his second time here, says he had "a vague feeling of familiarity" when he saw Pavlovich at a cocktail party, but thought he must just be another "old timer." After the arrest, Vagts was amazed that Pavlovich had enrolled for a second time in his seminar. "A death wish," Vagts calls...
...District 65 case, and hence it ignored Fuchs's repeated statements that due to the "unprecedented" nature of the dispute, the case merited consideration by the board in Washington. What Washington failed to acknowledge however, was that it was already considering the Columbia case when it turned down the joint request for referral...