Word: branch
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...first rent-a-pup store opened its doors six months ago in San Diego when FlexPetz started rescuing dogs from animal shelters and renting them out for as little as a few hours or as long as a week. The company is doing so well it opened a branch in Los Angeles in June, and will be in San Francisco and New York City by September...
...Oaxaca was once a haven for tourists because of its colorful native American culture and Spanish colonial architecture. But there is widespread anxiety, not just because of the Sears bomb or another "artifact," undetonated, was found outside a branch of a bank in a middle-class district of the city. Oaxaca is simmering in civil discord: the state has been torn by political strife and unrest since last year - further complicated now by contentious local elections pitting the conservative government against left-wing political groups scheduled for Sunday...
...come to this. not only does the U.S. Vice President flout an Executive Order, but he has the unmitigated gall to tell us the branch of government to which he belongs. The President then commutes the sentence of a convicted felon who just happens to be the Vice President's former chief of staff. It is stunning to me that almost 144 years later, the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address have been trampled and disregarded so callously by the four branches (now including Cheney's hybrid branch) of our government. Indeed, it would appear that government...
...Americans - and the world at large, for that matter - received no such reassurance about Bush's actions. Instead, they got Abu Ghraib, murky interrogation techniques and assorted other products of executive power gone unchecked. Not until 2004 did another branch of the federal government step in, and it was the Supreme Court, which ruled that the U.S. courts had the authority to review detainee cases and that military tribunals fell far short of the fair hearings required...
...helped pave the way for the Democrats to take back the House and Senate. Many Democrats vowed to change Washington's "culture of corruption," the kind that sent former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to prison. Now, as public satisfaction polls with the legislative branch hit new lows and Congress prepares for the month-long August recess, Democrats hope to push through a reform package they refer to as the most sweeping ethics and lobbying legislation in generations...