Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That kind of money was apparently intoxicating to a man who was raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., and who graduated from Baruch College, a branch of the City University of New York. During his years of insider trading, Levine bought an elegant apartment on Park Avenue, a summer house on Long Island, a red Ferrari Testarossa sports car and a handsome collection of fine jewelry...
Federal law bars former Executive Branch employees from ever lobbying the Government on a "particular matter" in which they "personally and substantially" participated while in office. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which...
...department's chairman says that independent study allows students to branch out from conventional methods of study. Still, Bakanowsky insists that his department is not an art school. "The real opportunity is the richness achieved by the mixing of disciplines," he says. "You could hole up here and make some interesting paintings," he says, "but that would be missing the whole point, and missing a true Harvard education...
...stated in the second paragraph of the article that Dr. Southern's departure "will leave the University without a scholar in ethnomusicology." The study of ethnomusicology as a branch of the department of music has had course offerings at the undergraduate and graudate levels for many years, taught by Pian, Prof. John M. Ward (retired last year), and myself. The chief upper-level course for those interested in the field is Music 185, Topics in Ethnomusicology, offered every year since 1979, most often jointly by Pian, Shapiro and Ward (thus affording an extraordinary student-teacher ratio!), and varying...
...Because of the pending legal actions, Gallo refused to endorse the change, although Montagnier signed the statement. Nonetheless, Subcommittee Chairman Harold Varmus, a leading California virologist, expressed hope that the decision would help defuse "the tense legalistic atmosphere" that has tarnished AIDS research. "The emotional flavor of this branch of virology," he wryly concluded, "is not quite what it should...