Word: branch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...health risks of obesity--diabetes, heart attack, high blood pressure and certain cancers, among others--are familiar to most Americans, but physical activity confers its own benefits "above and beyond what it can provide for weight control," says Harold Kohl, lead epidemiologist at the Physical Activity and Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...fundamental problem is that both parties view the judiciary as a means of enacting social policy; both Democrats and Republicans have come to expect that certain social issues will be determined by the judicial branch of the government. Therefore, driven by the courts roles in Americas culture wars, both parties attempt to pack the courts with like-minded judges. Judges are nominated for their political views, not because of their judicial prowess, and condemned for their political leaningstoo conservative, too liberalinstead of for flaws of jurisprudence, such as stamping their personal views upon legal decisions. Although it is easy...
...traffic in the nation. Critics say the mayor-elect is short on substance--"an empty suit," in the words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected to the California state assembly in 1994. He served as speaker of the assembly from 1998 to 2000, then ran for mayor and lost to Hahn in 2001, but was elected to the city council. Throughout his career, he has shown more skill...
...address the issue of cadets who are not quite so committed to a lifetime in uniform, the latest West Point innovation is Branch for Service, a program cadets took to calling Branch by eBay. It solves several complex problems with a simple trade. The Army's problem is that too many officers are leaving after their minimum five-year commitment. The cadets' problem is that if you don't have excellent grades, you often can't get the branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely...
DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs...