Word: branch
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Back to the Classics. Italians also pointed the way in safety, with two experimental cars: the PF Sigma, designed by the late Sergio Pininfarina, and the Secura, designed by the research branch of Quattroruote, the Italian auto magazine. Both cars have sliding doors that cannot spring open on impact, collapsible steering columns, heavily padded interiors, pop-out front and rear windows, and a body that sandwiches an extra-strong passenger compartment to absorb collision forces...
...company to insulate itself against recession at home is to operate in so many other countries that somewhere, some branch of the company will be doing well. This theory is amply justified by Italy's Pirelli Group, which produces half of its tires, cables and rubber goods in Italy and the rest in 25 factories in eleven other countries. During Italy's 1964 recession, the home company lost $120,000, but thriving foreign operations gave the group as a whole a profit...
...Japanese in development of the western Siberian oilfields, which are expected to become Russia's biggest producers. The Russians will need 4,338 miles of 48-in. pipe to run from the fields to the port of Nakhodka, plus 500 miles of 28-in. pipe for branch lines, as well as other equipment. They would pay the Japanese for the pipe and equipment in oil, beginning in about 1975, when production would presumably rise above local needs...
Early in March, backers at the University of Michigan's branch in Flint called to urge Riegle to oppose freshman Democratic Representative John Mackie. Subsequent conferences with Richard M. Nixon and with Michigan's Governor George Romney, he stated, convinced him that his chances for election were promising...
...Republican Party's numerical representation in the Senate and the House "is in a worse state than in the depths of the depression." Chafee said to an audience of Young Republicans at the Freshman Union. Nor could Chafee fore see any substantial gains for the GOP in either legislative branch next year...