Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first aboard, Gladys Yarian, assistant cashier at the Claypool branch of the First National Bank of nearby Warsaw, Ind., ambles back to her job across Main Street clutching The Call of the Wild. In her wake, Bank Teller Cindy Leslie carries off Little Women. The Rev. Steve Cain, 30, a Van Gogh beard and casual garb offering no hint that he is pastor of Claypool's United Methodist Church, chooses Marathon Man on the assumption, he says, that this nasty little spy thriller is about running. The Rev. Cain's daughter Rachel, 8, is a small celebrity...
Back in 1534, Henry VIII broke with Rome and created the Anglican Church because he wanted to get rid of a wife and the Pope would not let him. Now, nearly 1,000 former Episcopalians, breakaways from the American branch of Anglicanism, have won permission to sign up with Rome again, and under special conditions. They had broken with the U.S. Episcopal Church, mainly over its recent decision to ordain women priests. Among the dissident Episcopalians were 65 ministers, many of them married. But how could they become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. and still stay married...
...other cities surveyed, only the main branch of the New York post office--which counted what one employee called a "surprisingly low" 1215 registrants--tallied the number of post-cards it processed
...PARTY. Local Republicans held cocktail parties and cookouts, staged boat rides and concerts. North Carolina delegates were feted at a reception in Grosse Pointe Shores thrown by Ralph Wilson, owner of the N.F.L. Buffalo Bills. The Minnesota delegation was treated to a luncheon and fashion show at a suburban branch of Saks Fifth Avenue department store, and South Dakota delegates enjoyed a cookout at the Detroit Yacht Club. Under a huge tent at Stroh's Brewery, hundreds of visitors quaffed free bottles of Detroit's suds while listening to a five-piece country-and-western band that appeared...
Midland's takeovers are partly catchupmanship. The bank has been slow to follow the trend to international branch banking, as well as to join the brigade of British bankers in bowlers entering the lucrative California market. Since 1968, Midland's rivals-Barclays, Lloyds, Standard Chartered and the Royal Bank of Scotland-have all established offices there...