Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit's first formal session. With no aides present, Begin and Carter conferred for two hours in the small private study, with the President taking notes. All that is known about their discussion is that Carter suggested and Begin agreed that the three leaders issue a joint prayer for the success of the talks...
...following morning Carter held a similar two-hour conference with Sadat, this time on Aspen's flagstone patio overlooking the pool. The Egyptian agreed to the joint prayer for peace. Released later that day, it stated in part: "Conscious of the grave issues which face us, we place our trust in the God of our fathers ... We ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberations...
...successful work was a joint effort of two five-man research teams-one at the City of Hope National Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Duarte, under Dr. Keiichi Itakura, the other led by Biochemist David Goeddell at a small South San Francisco biochemical firm, Genentech Inc. Though scientists had already produced a precursor of rat insulin with bacteria, making the finished human variety posed greater difficulties. For it consists of two distinct molecular chains, a so-called A strand and a B strand, each of which is produced separately inside the cells of the pancreas under...
Assistant Intramural Director Lou Fabian and Student Kathy Evans, of the University of Pittsburgh, have found an ingenious way to curb competitiveness in basketball. Last year they introduced an intramural program in which the scores of both teams were added together. Two opposing teams win a joint victory when their total score is higher than those in other games played at the same hour. The goal of the program is to eliminate scorekeeping altogether...
...soldiers never die. They just fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure...