Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven exactly a man with a leaf-stripped branch...
...sounds, every court-martial sentence is automatically reviewed and often lightened in the process. The local commander may cut any sentence (though he may never increase it), after which his actions are reviewed by a Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer from the accused's branch of the service. For all major sentences, the next step after the commander is a three-lawyer "JAG" board of review in the Pentagon...
...Lever House in 1952, the Yale-educated baron chose the U.S. firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose partner in charge of design, Gordon Bunshaft, revolutionized the appearance of American banks with his glass and aluminum structure for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.'s Fifth Avenue branch twelve years ago. Today it is business as usual at the new Banque Lambert, but in an airy edifice of concrete and glass (see color pages) that Brussels Architect Jean Delhaye calls "perfectly equilibrated...
...exuberant courting of small savers and borrowers at home. It makes loans to individuals and firms at 12% interest, compared to the usual 25%, also offers liberal mortgage terms. It has opened Thailand's first drive-in bank and, to woo women customers, has a branch that is staffed entirely by women. "There are some things women can explain better to women," says Mrs. Punnee Kantasen, the branch manager. "Talking to a woman about small loans is easier than trying to explain...
RICHARD BREWER Assistant Professor of English Monmouth College West Long Branch...