Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement of principles on the need for cooperation in energy. A joint committee will probably be set up and an exchange of scientists arranged. Specifically, the accord could lead to geological studies of Siberian natural-gas and oil reserves, with the possibility of joint exploitation...
...absurd-low in Administration secrecy. The Congressional Joint Economic Committee planned to hold hearings last week on the state of the economy. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein readily agreed to give their assessments. But Kenneth Rush, Nixon's new economic coordinator, refused on grounds of Executive privilege...
...make atomic weapons. The prospect of the Arabs' getting nuclear help from the U.S. raised immediate alarm in Israel and in the U.S. Congress. Democratic Senator Frank Church declared that Nixon had gone "beyond propriety" in making the agreement, and Democratic Congressman Melvin Price, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, predicted that his group would have to hold thorough hearings to make sure that the safeguard measures were really foolproof before Congress would approve the step...
...Administration's request for $1.6 billion in military aid to South Viet Nam. The House voted $1.126 billion, the same amount as this year; the Senate approved only $900 million. In the end, when all the bills have been debated and the appropriations process is completed in joint House-Senate conferences, the Pentagon's budget is expected to be trimmed less than...
...token turnstiles and boarded a train. When the token seller cursed them as "Spanish trash," Pinero let loose with a few oaths of his own. Picked up by a transit cop on a charge of harassment, Miguel got rather more attention than he had bargained for. A marijuana joint found in his dungarees pocket earned him a minor charge of carrying drugs...