Word: branch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will soon host a mammoth branch of the casual clothing dealer Abercrombie & Fitch. Finagle-a-Bagel and Pacific Sunwear, which sells youth-oriented jeanswear, will also occupy the building's retail space...
...Harvard Square branch of BankBoston is thesecond busiest bank in the nation, following theCitibank in Grand Central Station, in New YorkCity, according to Edward L. Robertson II,BankBoston's regional president...
DIED. CATHAL GOULDING, 75, I.R.A. leader; in Dublin, Ireland. Goulding helped revive the I.R.A. in 1945, and while serving as its chief of staff, he attempted to move the group away from military confrontation. In 1972 he called a cease-fire, creating a split between his Official I.R.A. branch and the Provisional I.R.A., which sought continued armed strife...
Conservative accusers tell us that the anti-religious liberals' influence is considerable and widespread. Perhaps they worry over the liberals' anti-religious effect on members of the executive branch, such as our President, an active churchgoer who also consults pop spiritualists like Marianne Williamson and Anthony Robbins. Maybe the accusers refer to liberals' effect on the First Lady, who is known for extolling the many virtues of prayer. Or do they refer to the liberals' influence over the nation's courts, where obsessive secularism truly reigns...
...PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65 Taylor Branch's second installment of his trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. covers only three years, but they were complex and fateful times. Lyndon Johnson ascended to the White House and rammed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a triumph for King. But his doctrine of nonviolence was being challenged by Malcolm X, and a war in Southeast Asia escalated. Branch's book is an eerie chronicle of deaths foretold...