Word: jointing
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...Greens also find themselves closer to organized labor. Last week Nader had a warm meeting with Teamsters' leader James P. Hoffa, who saluted Nader and warned Gore that Hoffa's 1.5 million members shouldn't be taken for granted. In a behind-the-scenes meeting before their joint press conference, Nader wowed the Teamster leaders with his knowledge of the National Labor Relations Board policies governing union elections. "He knew everything," said a Teamster...
Venter was clearly ready. His tactless rhetoric had lost him respect among his colleagues, and he recognized that more controversy could overshadow a historic moment in biomedicine. Beyond that, he'd taken a beating in the marketplace. After a joint declaration by Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in March that all genomic information should be free, the value of Celera stock plummeted from $189 a share...
...finally they came, if not to a meeting of the minds, at least to a workable understanding--and a framework for this week's joint announcement. After more than a decade of dreaming, planning and heroic number crunching, both groups have deciphered essentially all the 3.1 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, the coded instructions for building and operating a fully functional human...
...arms race; now he plans to head for North Korea next month, partly to coax concessions out of the "rogue state" whose missile capability is Exhibit A in Washington's case for going ahead. Not content to simply say "nyet," Putin's gone a step further by suggesting joint Russian-U.S. deployment of an alternative missile defense that would attack rogue missiles immediately after takeoff, and destroy them in the "boost phase" when they're easier targets. How serious Putin may or may not be about the system remains to be seen, but the point is he's playing...
...staff, including Curry. Despite the booming economy and the affluence of the black middle class, Emerge's circulation was stuck at 160,000, one-tenth the size of Ebony's. It had been losing $1 million a year. Says Roy Johnson, editorial director of Vanguarde, which in April became joint owner of Emerge in a complex deal with BET Holdings II Inc.: "From a business standpoint, suspending publication was an easy call. As a new company, we simply could not afford to carry a magazine that was trending downward like that...