Word: branched
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...Hampshire, four members of a separate branch of the Sisters of Mercy are engaged in a struggle with Bishop Odore Gendron of Manchester; in January 1982, without any formal charges, he had dismissed them as teachers at a parochial school in Hampton. Rather than obediently bowing out, the sisters sued the bishop in a civil court for reinstatement, arguing that their contracts guaranteed an explanation and a hearing. The New Hampshire Supreme Court last December rejected the bishop's contention that secular judges had no business ruling on a purely ecclesiastical dispute, declaring that it was a civil matter with...
...glamorous weapons systems can only be cured by a restructuring at the top. Most important, the Joint Chiefs of Staff must be reformed. At present, the Joint Chiefs make their recommendations as a group. The chairman, who is ostensibly removed from representing the interests of just one branch of the services, is supposed to mediate when, say, the Army and the Navy disagree. But since the Chairman has only
Between them, the seven hold close to a billion dollars in accounts with members of the Harvard Square community. In both volume of trasactions and customer market share. Bay Bank stands as the undisputed ruler of the Harvard Square territory. Donald H. Tavel, vice president of the Harvard branch, says the bank controls about 50 percent of all deposits in commercial banks in the Square (although three, including the large Cambridge Savings, are savings and not commercial...
...Merchants' Cooperative installed ATMs when the bank moved from Dunster St to Church St two years ago, but the units have never been brought on-line because of computer problems James Logan, vice president of the holding company that acquired the bank last year blames the Harvard Sqare branch's relative decline in the consumer market since the late 1970's on the failure of its automated units...
...denominations voting on reunion are the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (P.C.U.S.), most of whose 829,000 members live in the South, and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (U.P.C.U.S.A.), which has 2.4 million members nationwide. The so-called Northern branch has long wanted to unite with the Southern, and not one of its presbyteries (regional groupings of local churches) has voted no so far. Under the Southern church's constitution, a negative vote by only 16 of the 61 presbyteries would kill the merger. But the narrow approval in Walterboro last week raised the Southern Presbyterian vote...