Word: joints
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...Science Foundation), Slater decided to enter a field that would lead to Government work, and economics looked right. She finally earned a Ph.D. in economics after a twelve-year slog of night school at American University. In 1967 she joined the staff of the CEA, then moved to the Joint Economic Committee, where she became the senior economist. She calls herself a "pragmatic liberal...
...innovative approach would be for multinationals to set up outposts in developing lands that would be 51% or more owned by local people or governments. Giving them a majority stake would diminish the danger of expropriation. Sperry has set up such joint ventures in many countries, and it has learned that to demand majority ownership is, in Lyet's words, "a very outdated, obtuse approach." If a company supplies the technology and the marketing expertness, it has effective control even if it does not own most of the stock...
...conference will consist of committee meetings on issues of common interest to the different delegations, which will exchange ideas about the handling of student problems. Delegates will also discuss the possibility of joint university action on major student issues...
Those fabulous '50s. That one little phrase condenses an entire decade's worth of events into the stuff of popular memory. Visions of fun come to mind when you hear that phrase. Fun at the hop, fun at the local hamburger joint, fun at the beach with Annette Funicello. Just plain old good times as America enjoyed peace and prosperity. Even Ike, the first dad-president, could spend his time playing golf. Nothing seemed too serious. Letter sweaters and class rings were the concerns of the day, as swarms of teenage boys tried to make out with reluctant gum-chewing...
Last March, the federal council bowed to nonwhite wishes and proposed that the four churches, establish a joint governing body with far-reaching power over doctrine, discipline and issues of "general concern." Leaders of the Colored daughter church rejected the plan in favor of one even more daring: unification of the four churches. The white church, at its quadrennial synod a few weeks later, flatly rejected any accommodation to its nonwhite Reformed Christians. (The obvious fear: the church might gradually integrate at regional and local levels, and also lay the moral grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government...