Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army is the first military branch to act on a Defense Department goal to reduce smoking to 25% throughout the military by 1990. The example starts at the top: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Army Secretary John Marsh and Army Chief of Staff John Wickham are all nonsmokers...
...vote, the court held that turning budget-cutting authority over to the Comptroller General violated the principle of separation of powers by vesting Executive Branch authority in a Legislative Branch official. The Comptroller General is the director of the General Accounting Office, Congress's chief watchdog on federal programs. Though appointed by the President to a 15-year term, he can be removed from office only by Congress. That power of dismissal, wrote outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive...
...abiding belief in Executive over Legislative power. Scalia was the probable author of the unsigned opinion striking down a key provision of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing law on the ground that the Comptroller General, responsible for implementing its trigger mechanism, is not under the executive branch of Government. An unwavering apostle of judicial restraint, he may give pause to conservatives seeking a more activist judicial agenda. As he wrote last year: conservatives "must decide whether they really believe . . . that the courts are doing too much, or whether they are actually nursing only the less principled grievance that...
...also have to be brilliant. Of the 20,000 people employed by Bell Labs in 19 facilities spread throughout the nation, 2,769 are Ph.D.s. "The brainpower around here is enormous," says Physicist Horst Stormer, referring to the Murray Hill branch, where a force of 3,200 does much of Bell's basic research. "This is like a university with a faculty of 500 physicists. If all of us took off and went to different universities, we wouldn't have the same impact." But clumped together, like uranium fuel rods in a reactor, the physicists and other Murray Hillers form...
...next year the computer network that links Miller's bank card to his grocery register will connect four California banks to 300 Lucky Stores. Wanda Jaworski's computer system is one of 300 LANs (local area networks) that already crisscross every large Travelers' office. Capobianco's networks branch from giant mainframe computers that tie hundreds of thousands of personal computer owners in an electronic community that stretches from coast to coast...