Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsettling cut appeared to be an attempt to draw attention away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured the main import of his speech. A quarter of the way through his address, Brezhnev extended an olive branch of sorts to the West, offering to revive the moribund SALT process and even proposing a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan...
...thereby discourage rip-offs of precisely the sort that Lewis had engineered. As explained by Cooley, Lewis' simple scheme was made possible by taking advantage of the amount of time-usually three to five days in California-that it takes for a check that is cashed in one branch of a bank to "clear" or be debited against the funds on deposit in another branch. No actual cash is shuffled between branches in the balancing process. Instead, accounts are made to tally by a method of computerized ledger balancing known as a "branch settlement account," a technique used...
...university called in an official of the epidemic intelligence service, a branch of the communicable center for disease control, to help in the investigation of the poisoning...
Susan McEnany, business office manager for the Cambridge branch of New England Telephone Co., yesterday described the problem as "Intermittent dial-tones," Company officials have not yet determined the eause, she added...
...many-sided Pontiff. John Paul was, as always, the charismatic Pope who set multitudes cheering. He was the political Pope, at once scolding his presidential host with a sermon on human rights and admonishing priests and nuns against revolutionary activism. He was the diplomat-Pope, extending an olive branch to the People's Republic of China and appealing for Muslim-Christian harmony on blood-soaked Mindanao. He was the doctrinaire Pope, zealously condemning artificial birth control in a nation with one of the most rapidly growing populations on earth. And he was the pastoral Pope, fondly kissing each member...