Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Close behind him, in the vestibule by the water cooler, a guy in a western that hat and his friend light a joint as they leave the exam. The hat-man continues to smoke it in the hall by the Civil War Dead plaques, waiting for something. He looks like a good old boy, tall and bearded and tough-looking. Someone asks him what exam he has just gotten out of. He sneers, "Ah, uh...I don't know, there's a whole bunch of 'em in there," and turns around, toking...
...same day that the Times saw fit to print, 17 newspapers, magazines, TV and radio networks and professional news organizations filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief on the Nebraska gag order, which is now before the full Supreme Court. The press brief concedes that pretrial publicity can compromise a defendant's rights. But it argues that a judge has other ways to protect those rights; such methods have included ordering jurors not to read or view news accounts of the trial, sequestering the jurors, and delaying or moving the trial if the pretrial atmosphere in a community...
Kearns wanted to write the book with Goodwin because she thought it would be a "better" book, but Basic Books did not want her to change it to joint authorship at such a late date. If she had had any immoral, machiavellian goals in mind, she could have waited the short time until she was approved for tenure to accomplish her allegedly sinister deeds. By breaking the contract when she did, Kearns is guilty, perhaps, of misjudgment, nothing more...
...standard fighter. They see U.S. opposition to the Concorde as a move to protect the American aerospace industry, which despite a bad year still supplies 90% to 95% of the commercial aircraft flown outside the Soviet Union. The British take a similar point of view. In a joint statement, the French and British governments warned: "Any move by the U.S. which might be interpreted as protectionist or discriminatory would tend, throughout the world, to threaten the relatively free and uninhibited environment in which aviation products are bought and sold...
...present, Schafer, who hails from a Chicago suburb and works in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the GSD, is working on a research plan at the Joint Center for MIT and Harvard University on Urban Planning...