Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proven to be the wisest move, especially in light of federal Judge Barrington D. Parker's no-nonsense rebuke of Helms during the sentencing proceedings last Friday. Government prosecutors might well have moved to dismiss the case as feared, but the mere fact of sending the case to the branch of government in which it properly belongs would have avoided the cynicism that greeted the Helms plea in many quarters last week...
...chambers to protest the move at a hearing required by the city charter, and former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city government." (Spring 1970 was the season of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia--the season that a Crimson headline read, "Rioting devastates Harvard Square; Windows smashed, scores injured...
...bodies have passed a series of major bills. Among them: the granting of broad presidential authority to reorganize the Executive Branch and to create a Department of Energy, the first Cabinet addition since 1966; a quick tax cut to stimulate the economy; a strip-mining bill; new clean-air provisions; increased price supports on wheat and corn; a hefty increase in the minimum wage; a limited program of public works jobs. In foreign affairs, Congress voted against automatically cutting off U.S. aid to nations that violate the basic rights of their citizens; it left these decisions in the President...
...Steiger: "This is an appalling use of public funds." The double-dipping would gradually end if the two retirement programs were merged. Nonetheless, the House bowed to intense pressure from lobbyists for the Government workers and shelved the merger for at least two years. That will give the Executive Branch time to search for a way to combine the programs in a manner acceptable to its employees...
...branch evolved into the ancestors of today's great apes?the gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans, which are man's closest living cousins. Another produced a creature called Gigantopithecus, a huge ground ape that roamed the valleys of Asia for a few million years before it became extinct. A third branch gave rise to Ramapithecus, which most anthropologists believe was a distant ancestor...