Admiral Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs chairman, says the United States should know by the end of this year whether the strategy is working.

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Polk asked Congress to give him permission to end the joint occupation agreement.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Sue Blackwell, an English lecturer at Birmingham University, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a boycott would involve not attending conferences at the three universities and an end to joint grant-funding applications.

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In the end, a joint motion was passed.

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Typically, when two closed-end funds merge, their joint expense ratios should decline because of the resulting economies of scale.

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