Word: jointing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...also encouraged by the flurry of new activity that surrounded the demise of Radcliffe. Last month, a coalition of women's groups called for joint office space in the Yard, to fill a space once occupied by the Lyman Common Room; we feel this would be an important step toward ensuring these groups a smooth transition...
...most visible change was joint instruction (read coeducation), forced on the reluctant university by wartime pressures...
...joint instruction" between Harvard and Radcliffe students begun during the war when instructors were scarce would become a permanent co-education system...
...important stagecraft, Bush invited the G.O.P.'s high priests of national security--former Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz (who was skeptical about the idea when Reagan embraced it)--to give his plan their seal of approval by standing with him. Some aides wanted a speech, not a press conference, fearing reporters would try to trip him up on nuclear arcana. But Bush, an aide said proudly, "answered all the questions himself!" As part of the effort to appear presidential, he even dispatched aides to give advance...
...removing the ashtrays from conference room tables as a courtesy to the nonsmoking Americans - and in some big things, the largest of which was a deal in which each side agreed to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium. That pact, combined with one creating in Moscow a joint U.S.-Russian center to monitor missile launches, allowed Clinton aides to proclaim a "highly significant and unprecedented" breakthrough in the arms talks. And in some ways it is; 68 tons of weapons-grade plutonium is enough to create 8,000 Hiroshima-sized nukes, and disposing of the that is always...