Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lending scheme that apparently took place on a branch manager's home computer in Georgia has grown into Italy's biggest banking scandal in years. Last week the disgrace claimed the two top officers of Italy's largest bank, the state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Chairman Nerio Nesi, 64, and Director General Giacomo Pedde, 62, resigned after the bank's board heard the results of an initial probe into a scam in which the bank's Atlanta branch gave $2.6 billion worth of unauthorized export credits to Iraq to buy machinery and agricultural goods...
...father taught him to do his homework, then "trust your gut." Sometimes the big man means it literally. When Davis spotted a good investment in the Carnegie Deli, the venerable Manhattan restaurant featured in Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, the financier struck a deal to open a Hollywood branch. The glitzy grand-opening party last month featured a 3-ft. plastic matzo ball being lowered into a vat of simulated chicken soup. Best of all, Davis can now order his favorite pastrami sandwiches at poolside...
...authority to appoint people to acting positions in the administration without Senate approval. Although it is unclear if Bush will name Lucas to a Justice Department post, the president, who has drawn criticism for not filling important positions, should be able to put together the rest of the executive branch puzzle...
Israel's olive branch to the Palestinians was tentative: West Bank schools will be allowed to function for a limited 17-week term, ending in late November. If any school becomes a focus for violence during that time, it may be shut down. It is likely that classes will meet in two shifts of only four hours each, which could help to minimize that possibility...
...Constitution. They fear that any breach in the constitutional barrier -- that is, any role for the democratic process in settling the abortion issue -- will condemn women to mass death by coat hanger. In April hundreds of thousands marched on Washington in a quixotic attempt to influence the very branch of Government whose independence from public pressure they count on to protect them from the mob on the other side...