Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive branch, the Justice Department proceeded to clear 160 names for prosecution (indicting six and winning two convictions to date). On the legislative side, Congress approved a measure which would deny federal assistance--including student aid--to anyone who has not complied...
Even to keep what they have now, some cities are at each other's throats. Fort Wayne, Ind., and Springfield, Ohio, each have their own branch of International Harvester, which has its headquarters in Chicago. But the company expects to keep only one of these two plants open. Says Fort Wayne Mayor Winfield Moses Jr.: "It's a boom or crash situation. If we lose, our unemployment goes from 12% recession to 21% depression. If we win, our unemployment goes down to 7%." The total job swing for the city is 17,000 positions...
Librettist Colby's campy, hit-or-miss humor works best in a scene describing the heroine's mother, a "chronic shiverer" who goes to her reward wearing enough garments to stock a branch of Marks & Spencer. Other beguiling wackinesses: a song about a man who makes eating vegetables seem a sexual experience, the vocal travails of a hiccuping, stuttering woman who has "bubbles in her bonnet," and the soprano heroine's sudden loss of her "high note," which she regains at the price of addiction-to helium sucked from balloons. In less good taste is a character...
...leadership appears uncertain about how to mobilize this support. In an article smuggled out of prison, Union Adviser Jacek Kuron has called for a general strike to force the government to carry on genuine negotiations with Solidarity. But Zbigniew Bujak, the former chief of the union's Warsaw branch, feels that Solidarity should operate nonviolently as an underground society...
Smith had less patience with twolegged animals, particularly when they ran athletics into the ground. George Steinbrenner was George III. Avery Brundage and his flunkies on the International Olympic Committee were the "waxworks." He idolized owners like Connie Mack and Branch Rickey but later sided with the players "in the slave cabins...