Word: branched
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...June 20, 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States. Its principal feature is the majestic bald eagle, wings spread, clutching an olive branch in its right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century...
...Israeli attack on the P.L.O. in West Beirut could arouse Arab anger even more, sowing new seeds of radicalism and terror among remnants of the Palestinian movement scattered throughout the Middle East. Said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical Marxist branch of the P.L.O.: "If they got rid of all of us and not a gun was left here [in Beirut], the revolution will continue. There are secret organizations all over the world." Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saeb Salam similarly warned that "if Begin and Sharon are allowed to finish...
...only is it sound policy to shield the Government's top official, said Powell, but under the separation-of-powers doctrine, the Judicial Branch should refrain from undue interference with the President's actions. For example, judges could slow the wheels of Executive power by providing too ready a forum for plaintiffs who ask them to scrutinize a President's day-to-day conduct. In a concurring opinion, Burger noted that Congressmen, their aides, judges and prosecutors enjoy similar immunity...
...indictments in Massachusetts will probably occur before August, John Roberts of the local American Civil Liberties Union branch said. Officials in the state U.S. Attorney's office have repeatedly refused to comment on their enforcement policies, though Washington officials have vowed to carry out a through enforcement program...
Administrative Law Judge Lowell M. Goerlich recommended that the New England branch of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRS) uphold allegations of improper interference filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local...