Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience." It is convening with very little joint preparation and no preliminary agreement. It lacks even a detailed agenda. Instead, as one of the participants remarked, "we're banking a great deal on chemistry leading to an evolution in the discussion...
Egypt The Israeli military government "will be abolished at the outset of the transitional period" and Israel will start dismantling its military installations. Egypt is prepared to consider a joint Israeli-Egyptian-Jordanian supervisory council...
Financially the picture is more mixed. World opinion tends to view them as a monolith, but the companies are quite independent and sharply competitive with each other-although they cooperate in all sorts of joint ventures. They have personalities about as varied as those of seven real-life sisters, and their performance differs too. Right now Texaco and Gulf are suffering through slumps that will be difficult to reverse. Some of the other companies' profits are being held down by a number of factors. Among them: lower sales in Europe and bookkeeping losses incurred by translating foreign-currency accounts...
Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...live, but not any more. It's also a good time to meet people, because tons of them will be milling around, looking for others to meet. But avoid the food, which is a harbinger of a long year at the Union. Eat at Elsie's, the sandwich joint par excellence, on Mt. Buburn Street, instead...