Word: branch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost hard to remember what the House Speaker was before Gingrich--a back-room fellow, the big man who sat in the House basement and drank bourbon and branch, kept a card file of favors given and received, scores to be settled in the private pathways of the Capitol. He still gets a big car and a big staff and is third in line to the presidency, but his job has always been a perch carved out of persuasion as much as power, especially when the vote is close...
According to the sources, Lasaga has beenactive in the New Haven branch of the Big BrothersBig Sisters organization, which pairsunderprivileged youths with adult mentors...
...Boston Public Library is offering "Booked Flicks," a discussion for young adults about books that have crossed over to the big screen. This week's installment will consider Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. 7 p.m. Uphams Corner Branch Library, 200 Columbia Rd., Dorchester. 265-0139. FREE...
...ahead, do your worst. Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz had been expected to hold out an olive branch at an international press conference Thursday; instead, even as U.S. forces streamed into the Gulf region, the angry and defiant Iraqi spokesman said Baghdad would make no concessions. "Iraq has accepted a U.S. attack as a fait accompli," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They see it as the next step in their battle against sanctions. Iraq believes it can withstand U.S. attacks, and that pressure from Arab countries will eventually force Washington to back down...
...There are a range of litmus test issues," said Fallon, a 17-year veteran at HLS. "He has been insistent that the executive branch be subject to the unitary control of the president. With respect to free speech issues, he has been very skeptical of the notion that it is permissible to restrain hate speech or sexually harassing speech without infringing on the First Amendment...