Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Branch...
Compared with his first budget, the one presented by Deukmejian last week was, in the words of Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy, "an olive branch." Deukmejian reached out with an overall spending increase of 11.3%. The biggest windfall went to education. The University of California system received a 30% increase in funding, making possible salary hikes for the faculty, lower student fees ($1,317 to attend Berkeley, $70 cheaper than last year) and new equipment and programs. Community colleges may also receive more money, provided the legislature assesses a $50-per-semester fee on students. Deukmejian earmarked $900 million...
...proliferation of lawyers who take on drunken-driving cases is the predictable result of a national crusade to break the connection between alcohol and death on the highways. That movement has been gathering momentum since 1980, when the first branch of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed in California. MADD and its many allies have just had their best year. In 1983, 40 states toughened their drunken-driving statutes. At least nine passed laws mandating jail terms for second offenders; 39 states now have such laws. Eight states, most recently Wisconsin, passed laws raising their drinking ages...
Herman Veal and Adrian Branch sank two free throws each in the final minutes last night to lead number five Maryland to a 59-55, Atlantic Coast Conference basketball victory over 12th-rated North Carolina State...
...videomakers tend, with suitable modifications for ego, to go along with this sort of businesslike evaluation. Simon Fields, head of the Los Angeles branch of London's Limelight Productions, has produced more than 300 videos, and says, "We have to remember we are making a sales tool. These are little commercials. It is our job to make an artist look good." Even so, the skill of the videomakers often seems secondary to the music they visualize. Says Mallet: "You can make a good video of a bad record, and it doesn't do a thing...