Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Bond. It included a clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia, they found ten 100-oz. silver bars, currently worth some...
...island, whose highest point is only 10 ft. above sea level, families were torn asunder. In desperation, people clung to the rafters of the Forestry Department building or to trees or to anything else not swept away by the terrifying storm. "I survived by holding on to a branch," said Akmal Hossain, a 42-year-old farmer. "Everything happened after midnight, and before I could realize the gravity of the situation, water and water engulfed the island." By the time furious wind and swirling wave had passed, Hossain found that he had lost his wife, his daughter and his aged...
...firm is based in Cambridge and has branches in Washington, D.C. and Santa Clara, California. The physical plant of the Cambridge branch is limited to their dorm room in Leverett House, but this poses few serious problems; if they want to meet with clients, they pay a visit in their Cadillac limousine...
...twice the height of a tall man and 120 ft. long. The plates leaned inward slightly but emphatically and cut diagonally across the plaza -- a raw, rusty, hulking gesture. Its title was Tilted Arc, its author was Richard Serra, and it was commissioned by the General Services Administration, a branch of the Federal Government, as part of its Art-in-Architecture program. The cost...
...ultrasound images of a fetus being aborted, The Silent Scream, has received wide play and inflamed antiabortion passions, even though a number of medical authorities have denounced it as a distortion. "We are responding to what the pro-lifers have done," says Lauren Virshup, executive director of the California branch of NARAL, "but what we do will have a life of its own." Argues Virshup of what she hopes will be a reinvigorated pro-choice movement: "When people really understand that we may be on the brink of losing legal abortion, the energy we once had will return...