Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem lies at a higher level than that," Wright said. "The problem lies with the determination of someone in the executive branch that the president doesn't have to abide by the law unless he wants...
...exciting time in this research," said Dr. Andrew Monjan, acting chief of the neuroscience of aging branch of the National Institute on Aging. Potential causes and cures "are no longer as distant," he said...
...refusal of some advertisers to deal with an agency that handles any archrival products. The merger of three agencies brought together under one roof many combinations of fiercely competitive consumer goods. Pillsbury, for example, which had cake and frosting accounts with Omnicom, withdrew $30 million in business because another branch of the combined agency represents Betty Crocker mixes...
Although researchers are racing to understand the disease, they still know very little for certain about how AIDS is transmitted, especially among heterosexuals. "We don't know all the mechanisms," says James Chin, chief of the infectious-disease branch of the California health services department. "We do know grossly, by observation, that it is bi-directional" -- in other words, that men and women are each able to spread the virus...
...court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...