Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...development of a strong middle class and the creation of a governmental system that was deliberately decentralized to minimize the danger from coups and tyrannical regimes so prevalent in The region. The unfortunate consequence is that much of the public sector is outside the budgetary control of the executive branch, and both the legislative assembly and the supreme court can make important economic decisions without the approval of the President...
Speaking to an audience of nearly 100 at the first meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Space Research Group (HRSRG) and the Harvard Student Branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (HSBAIAA), Kent advocated "bringing space to the consumer level...
Canadian banks, though, will soon be losing their monopoly on high bank rates. Taking advantage of Canada's new liberalized rules on foreign bank operations, the National Bank of Detroit is opening its first branch in Windsor this week, and it will offer the same rates as Canadian banks. Says one of its officers: "It will be nice to get a piece of the action over there...
...chaos grows at home, Iranian exile organizations of all political stripes are staging protests and demonstrations around the world. The spectrum of the organizations runs from monarchists like the Azadegan group, to centrists who support onetime Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar (currently in exile in France), to a branch of the Marxist-Leninist Fedayan-e Khalq guerrilla organization. Their common aim: to build international opposition to Khomeini...
From George Washington on, those elected to the nation's highest office found themselves variously confounded by conflicting demands. They were supposed to be of the people but a little above them, too; woe to them if they did not run the Executive Branch efficiently, and equal woe if they failed at improvident spellbinding. Small talk seems to have flummoxed some of them. During the 1824 campaign, John Quincy Adams was approached by an old farmer, who said: "My wife, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little...