Word: branche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nation Can Demand Sacrifices for Public Service. Few deny that top Executive Branch officials are underpaid. Money, however, is but one measure of compensation for serving at the highest levels of Government; there is also a huge premium to be derived from fascinating work, public recognition and perhaps even the chance to shape history. This is why it is disturbing that the President's ethics commission last week kicked the issue of limits on outside earned income for top officials to Congress, an institution not known for its ethical sensitivity...
Koskotas' first ambition, he says, was to enlarge the Bank of Crete. Private banks routinely had to wait at least a year for authorization to open a single branch. But the Bank of Crete opened about 50 branches in four years, and licenses were granted for an additional 20. Sure of his political shield, Koskotas was unafraid to violate banking laws and withdraw huge sums of cash at will. If Koskotas worried aloud about audits, Papandreou was always reassuring. "So long as I am here," Koskotas says Papandreou told him, "you never have to worry...
CDAR was formed last fall in response to the establishment of a Boston branch of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion organization, said Lawrence. Lawrence added that CDAR's membership consists of the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Marxist-Leninist Party, Refuse & Resist--a pro-choice organization--and students from Harvard and Tufts...
Polsky: "I liken our quoting abilities to the relative arborous abilities of the lemur and the dromedary. If it ever came down to a contest of branch swinging, the dromedary would soon find itself succumbing to gravity. Jim has a real talent but he must learn how to channel his energy...
...legislative branch is not my strong suit," she says, explaining that she prefers to be in a policy-making position because she is not a "detail person...