Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rare instances during the term when the court failed to defer to a lawmaking body. It yielded to Congress (on all-male draft registration and tough strip-mine controls), to the Executive Branch (on passport powers and strict standards for cotton dust and lead in factories) and to states (on televising trials and the double celling of prisoners). Moreover, the Justices tended to resist the temptation to write broad new rules. In short, the court has been just the sort of strict-constructionist, nonactivist body that Ronald Reagan likes...
...peak in France on June 21, 1981 is a view not likely to be contested by the history books. By taking 289 of a possible 491 seats in Parliament, the Socialist Party can now boast outright possession of the legislative in addition to its recent acquisition of the executive branch of the government. A half-century battle by the oft-divided Left has finally, and convincingly, been won. For members of the new opposition, it is time for soul-searching and question-answering...
...drug's main port of entry is Miami. By no coincidence, the Miami branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is the only branch bank in the U.S. Reserve system to show a cash surplus-$4.75 billion worth in 1980. A likely explanation: laundered cash from drugs...
Paula Bright, comptroller of Harvard Bookstore, said yesterday she notified Cambridge police and firemen and warned the branch offices after she had received the threat. The caller did not identify himself and did not mention a reason for the threat...
...allegedly instructed First Variable's bank, Riggs National, to credit him with $1.55 million and transfer the money to an account in the Pentagon branch of his bank. Campos moved nearly the maximum amount of money that could be transferred without triggering additional security checks by First Variable officials...