Word: branched
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...avoid having the Executive Branch investigate itself, the law requires independent counsel to be chosen by a panel of federal judges. That transferred Executive power to the judiciary, Olson argued, which violates the Constitution's separation of powers. The appeals court majority agreed, overturning a district court's earlier ruling...
...fellow tourists on a package trip to the Soviet Union last November, Ted and Cheryl Branch were a mousy couple whose bumbling efforts to defect were met with dismay by their Russian tour guide. The pair spoke no Russian and had no jobs. By last week, when Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov announced that the couple had been granted asylum, the Branches had become "specialists in mass communications...
...Branch, 43, had bounced through a feckless radio career, winding up in 1983 as an announcer and general manager for WBGB, a tiny station in Mount Dora, Fla. In 1985, shortly before WBGB went bankrupt, he left in a dispute over back pay. Branch could not find another full-time job on the air, and the couple somehow blamed the U.S. Government for failing to take up his cause. In November, Cheryl Branch told a fellow tour member, "I'm going to write a book. I'm going to expose all the things that are wrong in the American system...
Many civil libertarians join in the criticism. Says Edward Martone, executive director of the New Jersey branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "If every inner-city principal took the Joe Clark tack, they'd just throw one-third of their student body into the street. At best those kids are going to get minimum-wage jobs. At worst they're going to end up committing crimes and being incarcerated...
...Congress refuses to go along, since the reform would strip power from the Legislative Branch and hand it to the Executive. But recent events have conspired to give the idea some weight. The Oct. 19 stock-market crash shocked Washington into the realization that the U.S. economy will not be able to endure continuing federal deficits of $170 billion or more. Then Government's budget "summiteers," after much agonizing, produced a puny two-year, $76 billion deficit reduction package. Just before Christmas, Congress presented the President with a $603.9 billion spending bill for fiscal year 1988. The 2,100-page...