Word: branch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...According to Mr. Brush, the New Orleans branch also has the benefit of a full liquor license...
...Ensemble featuring Cat Power accompanied Cat Power’s breathy, threatening vocals with grainy, slow-motion video footage of hurricanes in action. As the song swelled to a kind of breathing, desperate mass, the video showed a world pulling itself apart shingle by shingle and branch by branch. Best of all, the video didn’t try to glamorize the performer or interpret the song by adding a story. Instead, the video focused on the sound itself, and it did a perfect job. Koichiro Tsujikawa’s wonderfully strange video for the Cornelius song...
...That's not strictly true. Republicans didn't bother with any such shenanigans. Their overseas supporters are expected to vote by postal ballot in their home states. Republicans Abroad U.K. holds fundraisers and social get-togethers such as the first meeting of its Young Republican branch, a staid gathering where some two dozen fresh-faced professionals and students met up, also on Super Tuesday, in a central London bar. One of their number, banker Allison Bruneau, 28, says she's encountered a view among Britons that supporters of President Bush "drive pick-up trucks" and pine for slavery...
Amid the cacophony of placard-wielding Clinton and Obama supporters trading slogans and insults, or just bellowing greetings to newcomers pushing into the hall, Bill Barnard pleads for attention. "Ladies and gentlemen," says the chairman of the British branch of Democrats Abroad, "we have a serious problem." To anyone unaccustomed to the rowdy caucus tradition, that statement might seem self-evident. "It's chaos," says Barbara Lewis, a 64-year-old American who has lived abroad for 37 years and, until tonight, had never cast a vote. Like the hundreds of U.S. citizens still queuing to enter the building...
...Each branch of Democrats Abroad made its own unique voting arrangements. In Vienna, which was celebrating its annual Fasching carnival with traditional masked revelries, an "Abraham Lincoln" voted alongside a "Hillary Clinton" and a cowgirl. Voters in New Delhi were given donkey-shaped cookies. London, home to 200,000 Americans, staged the most ambitious event - a Feb. 5 primary with caucus-like elements such as a public show of support for the two candidates...