Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their accelerating dismay over the state of the economy, Republicans could hardly be distinguished from Democrats, business executives from labor leaders. All were making much the same speech and the same plea to the President and Congress: do something and do it now. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country...
April 1969, and Richard and Pat Nixon signed the joint return. Had the scheme not been discovered, the President would have avoided paying $235,000 in taxes over a period of several years, since the deduction was taken only in part on the 1969 return, and was spread out over the returns of subsequent years...
Increasingly, the oil producers will " be moving into countries with development projects like the one announced last week by Guinea: it will join Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya and Egypt in investing $400 million in a joint enterprise that will produce about 9 million tons t> of bauxite ore a year, an amount equal to 150% of Guinea's current output. Like similar deals arranged in the past two years with the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the joint venture with the Arabs underscores President Sekou Toure's point that Guinea is becoming less and less dependent on Western companies...
...city and University may also institute special joint tours that will include historical buildings at Harvard among visited sites, Moulton said...
...occupation of Czechoslovakia the following year. Cole says that there was no reason to doubt Lindbergh's military assessment, even though almost all other historians-including military experts-who have treated this subject, feel that Germany could have been easily defeated in 1938 by a joint military force from those countries which reneged on their commitment to Czechoslovakia. It seems clear that Lindbergh distorted the military situation in Europe, whether deliberately or not, to prevent America from joining or encouraging a war against Hitler...