Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's own armaments industry, and refuse to deliver a promised nuclear power plant. The Administration could abolish the tax deduction that encourages Americans to send tens of millions of dollars to Israel via the United Jewish Appeal and other channels. The U.S. could end a policy of joint ventures between the two countries, like an expensive desalinization plant recently completed in Tel Aviv...
...optimism was premature. By week's end fete had turned into fiasco and joie into tristesse for the Communists. A long-awaited summit meeting of Socialist, Communist and Radical Party leaders was abruptly halted by a strident, embarrassingly public dispute over the common program-the parties' joint campaign platform for the March 1978 elections...
Stokowski had little more success in his co-conductorships. His tenure with the NBC Symphony ended after two years because the joint director, Arturo Toscanini, felt that Stokowski's musical ideas were too divergent from his own to make a joint directorship possible. Toscanini, the purist, had only a mite of sympathy for Stokowski's revolutionary ideas about adjusting acoustics and reseating orchestras. The problems were almost exactly duplicated and Stokowski ousted exactly seven years later, when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded...
...President Nelson Rockefeller to pour $100 billion of federal money into an emergency energy program. Earlier this year the institute insistently pointed out what it saw as the bureaucratic dangers of the proposed Agency for Consumer Advocacy, which now seems dead. More generally, Tom Dernburg, chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, says: "I certainly take their work seriously. A lot of it is very high quality." Winning such respect from moderate and liberal Democrats is undoubtedly the institute's biggest success...
...foundations of Bok's ambitions and the school's unique feature. The Ford Foundation has backed seven public administration schools across the country, including Harvard. According to the foundation's report on public administration schools, Michigan's Institute of Public Policy Studies requires that all faculty have joint appointments with its other faculties; Berkeley's Graduate School of Public Policy prohibits all joint appointments. The Kennedy School, on the other hand, has its own faculty, although it also includes several joint appointments. With this strategy, the Kennedy School has been able to establish itself clearly as a separate entity...