Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order against Dillon, an economics major who is presently on a leave of absence from Harvard, also alleges that he represented his firm as an independent business and himself as a broker-dealer when in reality his firm was a branch office of the Securities Investment Services Corp. (SIS) of Boston and Dillon an agent of that corporation. He was charged, further, with depositing payments in a Dillon Company bank account over which he alone had control...
Regarding the allegations of representing the firm as a separate business entity instead of a branch office, Dillon said that at times people had the impression the firm was an independent brokerage company, "but we didn't hold out a shingle saying we were...
...contretemps over Leninism reached a peak during a recent conference of the Catalan branch of the party, the so-called United Socialist Party of Catalonia (P.S.U.C.), which pulled in almost a third of the 1.6 million Communist votes in last June's elections, taking eight of the 20 Communist seats in the 350-member Congress of Deputies. With Carrillo looking on unhappily, a majority of P.S.U.C. delegates declared against Thesis XV, not just because of ideological considerations, but because so major an issue had not been permitted enough discussion. They tried "Stalinist methods to democratize the party," grumbled...
...point is not that malnutrition does not exist among breast-fed babies, because it obviously does. But in impoverished areas where babies are breast-fed, a severe state of malnutrition does not commonly set in until around the second year, when the mother stops nursing. A branch of the World Health Organization has found that because of the decline of breast-feeding, deaths from malnutrition now peak in the third and fourth months. According to World Bank nutritionist Dr. Alan Berg, the past two decades have seen the average age of the onset of malnutrition drop from 18 to eight...
...same time, Pretoria placed its support behind a white-led coalition of black and white parties and tribal groups, including the Hereros. That coalition, now known as the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance,* is headed by Dirk Mudge, 49, a rich white farmer who broke last year with the Namibian branch of South Africa's ruling National Party to join forces with moderate black and colored (mixed race) groups...