Word: branches
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American financial institutions, however, are now going national. Despite laws like the 1927 Pepper-McFadden Act, which forbids banks to set up branch offices outside their home states, moneymen are spreading out from coast to coast. New financial supermarkets such as Sears and Shearson/American Express are offering a wide variety of banking services, and traditional firms, ranging in size from San Francisco's BankAmerica (assets: $124 billion) to General Bancshares of St. Louis ($1.8 billion), are roaming far outside their old territory. Consumers are likely to reap better services and lower prices from the resulting competition...
Museums are now civic centers for the celebration of art, rather than simply treasuries of the past. Increasingly they are offering concerts, film programs, lectures, children's activities and education programs that reach far out into the community. They also house restaurants and, of late, the most booming branch of the booming museum biz, museum shops. Attendance keeps increasing, not only because of a still growing interest in art and culture, but also because of a growing need to experience a sense of community. Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes' Dallas Museum of Art, which opened to the public last...
That is a sample of the rich meanings Princeton History Professor Robert Darnton finds in the commonplaces of prerevolutionary France. He is exploring a relatively new branch of history, cross-fertilized by anthropology and known in France as l'histoire des mentalités. Says Darnton: "It attempts to show not merely what people thought but how they thought - how they construed the world...
...Washington cite him as having prevented attempts by Sen Jesse Helms (D.N.C) to stop the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on civil rights issues such as busing, abortion and school prayer. The failure of the proposed Helms-Johnson Amendment, according to many observers, helped preserve the independence of the judiciary branch...
...Syria, Libya, South Yemen and perhaps others. At present, such action would require the unanimous support of league members, but King Hussein of Jordan may try to have the rules changed, enabling Egypt to be readmitted by a simple majority vote. In the meantime Egypt, Jordan and the Arafat branch of the P.L.O. plan to meet in March or April to formulate a new approach for negotiating the future status of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...