Word: branched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion-a-year business has moved because of increasing federal scrutiny of banks in South Florida. An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in 1983 said that the Angiulo family, a reputed organized-crime group, had bought more than $1.7 million in cashier's checks from a First National branch in Boston's North End. Payment for the checks included $250,000 in cash. According to the Boston Globe, the branch gave cash-reporting exemptions to the two companies allegedly connected with the Angiulos. Such exemptions are usually granted to small businesses like grocery stores that handle lots of bills...
...about $12 million and hired an appraiser to value them at twice their true worth. Then a Rogers associate bundled the inflated mortgages on the apartments into securities that were sold to savings banks and other investors. Bank of America investigators are looking into why its Inglewood, Calif., branch agreed to act as an agent for handling the payments...
...years Judaism's Conservative branch struggled over whether women should become rabbis. Reform Jews, more liberal, have ordained women since 1972, and 71 are now rabbis. But the Conservatives warily delayed, until in 1983 the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary voted to train and ordain women. Last week, with the first female seminarian about to graduate, the cycle was completed when the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, announced it would admit to membership anyone ordained by the seminary, male or female...
...join after her May ordination is Amy Eilberg, 30. "The long vigil is over," she said gratefully. During the next few years she will be followed by 18 other women now in the rabbinical program at the New York City seminary, the only such school in the Conservative branch. Eilberg's assembly membership provides critical recognition for her as a Conservative rabbi. The rabbi-to-be, who is married to a religion scholar, is considering a hospital chaplaincy or a job at a synagogue in southern Indiana near her home. The Conservatives' change "creates a synthesis of Jewish tradition...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell will officially unveil a 200-volume collection of books and other materials on peace and non-violence this Thursday at the Central Square Branch Library. The sole criterion for including works, which were all donated by local citizens and bookstores, in the collection was that they deal in some way with the peaceful resolution of violent conflict, according to Jeb Brugmann, director of the Cambridge Commission on Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Education...