Word: branched
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...Libyan connection, revealed seven months after a British policewoman was killed by shots fired from Libya's London embassy, sparked a public outcry. "It is dreadful that this union would approach a terrorist country for help," said Ted MacKay, head of the mineworkers' North Wales branch. Declared Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, who has supported the strike: "By any mea sure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Gaddafi regime is vile...
...going to branch out one target at a time," Timothy A. Walkins '86, president of the Black Students Association (BSA), said yesterday. The first target is President Bok, with whom the students are attempting to schedule a meeting, Wilkins added...
Seymour Fisher, Ph.D. The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas
...letter was unearthed from a trove of Nixon's papers in a branch of the National Archives in Laguna Niguel, Calif. Last week Walter Mondale read the passage to campaign audiences to back up his charge that Reagan is guilty of "political grave robbing" when he invokes the names of such Democrats as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman-and, yes, John F. Kennedy. Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes replied that Reagan "had been pleasantly surprised to find the difference between Kennedy the candidate and Kennedy the President...
Last week that close partnership came undone. Even as the United Automobile Workers union was celebrating the successful end of contract negotiations with the Ford Motor Co. and the ratification of another agreement with General Motors, its Canadian branch went on strike against GM. Blue-and-white picket signs went up in front of the Windsor transmission plant, just a short drive from GM's Detroit headquarters, as workers shut down all 13 Canadian GM plants...