Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more television en treaties than ever before. These same experts also suggest that when the smoke clears there may be very little change in the Congress along party lines. But there will be more internal stress in the political system. There will be more trouble in the Legislative Branch for its leaders and for President Jimmy Carter...
...supply and, indirectly, interest rates, the Federal Reserve is also a kind of superbank. It lends money to member commercial banks, audits their books, writes the rules under which they operate. It can approve or disapprove mergers between banks, or tell a bank whether it can open a new branch in London. The Federal Reserve enforces ten laws enacted to protect borrowers, and wrote the rules that banks must follow to make sure that women can get loans as easily...
...Teams of Russian electrical specialists have fanned out around the countryside to erect high-tension wires as part of a new nationwide power grid. The Russians are involved in every section of Cuban industry and agriculture and most government ministries, notably including the Ministry of Interior and its espionage branch, the DGI (General Directorate of Intelligence), which works hand in glove with the Soviet...
...ringing decision striking down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...
While doubts and charges swirled about them, the young couple had a quickie marriage in Reno and a second ceremony in San Francisco at the headquarters of the controversial Jews for Jesus, whose Cambridge branch was responsible for Levitt's conversion. On the walls were paintings of a Menorah, a Torah scroll and Jesus bearing the Cross. Below, a banner proclaimed MAZEL TOV KEN AND CHRIS...