Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from M.I.6, Britain's overseas intelligence branch, the government learned that the Red queens-they have long since parted-might be leaving Moscow, swore out warrants for their arrest under Britain's Official Secrets Act. At week's end, after checking every train, plane and ship from Russia, British police and intelligence agents from Accra to Zanzibar were still waiting. Some highly placed Britons hoped they would wait a long, long time...
...noted that the Supreme Court is the weakest branch of the federal government. "I doubt very much if the judiciary has the power to tell the American people that they cannot inflict punishment on Communists...
David W. Crabb, lecturer in African languages at Columbia, defended the teaching of African languages on somewhat different grounds from Welmers. Identifying African languages as a valid branch of linguistics, he stated that "the scientific analysis of systems of communication is a 'high level' academic pursuit and should have a place in every curriculum...
...machine will immediately indicate what citizens have not filed returns. The computers will rapidly disclose who owes taxes for previous years, who has refunds coming and who filed duplicate claims for refunds. "We can program this thing," says Clinton Walsh, chief of the IRS's management branch, "to do just about anything we want it to do." The computer system has already been pressed into service to process business tax returns from the seven Southern states, even writes businessmen robot letters if they pay too much or too little. But the taxpayer has a period of grace before...
Picture Window. Punctuating his message with such quotable slogans as "Man does not live by ratings alone" and "Public trusts are not to be sold like sacks of potatoes," Minow also reviewed the commission's accomplishments in TV during his tenure. The FCC has set up an education branch to help the growth of educational TV. It is pushing for dozens of new channels in the ultra-high frequencies to open up competition and hopefully lift the general quality of commercial television. Experiments in pay TV have been both condoned and conducted. Some 14 stations have been...