Word: joints
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Spellman said yesterday that the University's policy of joint-tenured appointment in the Afro department was the chief cause for his resignation. Candidates for tenure in Afro must be nominated by Afro and one other department in the University...
...plans to recommend that Congress set up a single joint committee to oversee U.S. intelligence operations, rather than the separate House and Senate bodies that many Congressmen have proposed. The President will also urge Congress to make it a crime for a past or present employee of the secret agencies to disclose "the sources and methods" of intelligence gathering. The House and Senate already have rules prescribing penalties for Congressmen who leak secrets, but the rules have never been enforced...
...Governor wants the people to stay with the commonwealth option as the best means of maintaining their identity while pursuing development. The present arrangement, overwhelmingly approved by the voters in every election since it was adopted in 1952, will probably be changed somewhat this year. A joint commission headed by Muñoz and former Kentucky Senator Marlow Cook and strongly sup ported by the Hernandez government, has proposed a new compact, which is now be ing discussed in Congress. The island would be explicitly recognized as a sovereign entity voluntarily choosing union with the U.S. Puerto Ricans would remain...
...Japan, the disclosures aroused howls of "Kuroi kiri!" (black mist or political corruption). In the U.S., a kind of black mist has been swirling around corporate-Government connections too, and it got denser last week. Deputy Defense Secretary William P. Clements Jr. told a joint House-Senate committee that Northrop has paid back to the Air Force $564,013 for "improper costs" on contracts-apparently representing political contributions for which Northrop had quietly charged the Pentagon. But Clements was embarrassed by the subcommittee's disclosure of the names of 55 more Pentagon personnel who had been guests of military...
...lightning bug." Since Twain's day, in the view of many newspaper editors, a plague of fireflies has filled the sky: neologisms proliferate and the rules of grammar have raveled badly. To deal with the situation, the Associated Press and United Press International are preparing a new joint stylebook, and the New York Times has just issued a revised 231-page Manual of Style and Usage (Quadrangle; $10), though the last version appeared only 14 years ago. In the words of News Editor Lewis Jordan, who edited both revisions, the Times's stylebook gives "preference to that which...