Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that sense that Republican Dwight Eisenhower, after a Washington strategy conference with the G.O.P.'s Capitol Hill leaders, last week defended Kennedy's foreign policies but strongly criticized the President for "the strenuous efforts of the Administration to increase greatly the power of the executive branch of the Government. It has long been my judgment that the real threat to liberty in this Republic will be primarily found in a steady erosion of self-reliant citizenship and in excessive power concentration." To back up his charge that Kennedy is asking for too many powers, Ike cited Kennedy...
...Establish somewhere within the executive branch of each state that is likely to be seriously affected a division or bureau or office similar to that in the Budget Bureau in Washington. These state planning offices would help gather the information needed by the Washington planners and they would receive information from Washington on likely impacts upon their state and on suggested new directions for industrial development...
...more fruitful life" after the war. Bush, who headed the showcase Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, recommended a federal foundation with a dual function: to set national science policy and nurture neglected basic research. Set up in 1950 as an independent agency within the executive branch, N.S.F. is governed by the 24-member National Science Board, appointed by the President for six-year terms, plus Director Alan T. Waterman, a onetime Yale physicist and researcher (radar), who has been on the job since he was first picked by President Truman...
...visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink yet," said jubilant Intra Bank Founder Yusuf Bedas, 50, adding, "Conservative banks belong to the past...
...lured business from competing Beirut banks by cutting loan rates from 9% to 6%. To gain stature for his upstart bank, he convinced Bank of America that it should come into his trade-financing op erations, became correspondent for New York's venerable Chase Manhattan Bank, and opened branches in Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Jordan. In 1958, when near civil war halted Lebanese banking for more than three months and most of his competitors sat brooding over their ill fortune, Bedas took advantage of the lull to set up a branch in London and an affiliate bank in Geneva...