Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revolutionaries managed to oust Sir Eric's warlockracy with the loss of only three lives. On the morning of March 13, 45 members of the opposition New Jewel movement (Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education and Liberation) stormed Sir Eric's True Blue Defense Force barracks; they arrested 100 soldiers who were sleeping and unarmed. At the same time, Sir Eric's government ministers were routed out of bed and confined in the garden of the local prison...
...that may or may not be worthwhile for society but that create no new wealth. For example, the metals, paper, utilities, chemical and other industries have had to spend large sums for mandatory environmental protection equipment instead of machines and plants. In its annual report last week, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee deplored the fact that industry in 1977 had to spend $6.9 billion for pollution-abatement equipment "that does not contribute directly to the production of measured output...
...completely open in the new China. Working on the joint concert, members of the Boston and Peking orchestras got to know each other. Violinist Speaker had become friendly with her opposite number, and at a banquet the women began exchanging stories about their domestic lives and families. Then a man came up to the table and touched the Chinese player on the shoulder. It was a gentle warning, and she fell silent...
...joint concert was held in the 18,000-seat Capital Stadium. Ozawa was in ebullient humor and under no illusions about producing musical ecstasy in such a setting. Said he: "It's like swimming in the ocean after you have been swimming at the Y." The audience was in a jolly, responsive mood. Cellist Martin Hoherman brought down the house during an encore by playing a few phrases on the banhu, a Chinese instrument with two parallel strings, played by bowing between them. Hoherman was glad when his chore was over: "That technique is like drilling. A dentist should...
...rent control opponents, led by the Cambridge Property Owners and Taxpayers Association, testified in favor of two house resolutions before the state legislature's Joint Committee on Local Affairs. The first resolution would phase out rent control while the second would institute vacancy de-control, which would end rent control as tenants leave apartments...