Word: branches
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Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah...
...often does so with boldness. This term the court ruled forcefully in an unusually large number of major cases, most notably by striking down Congress's asserted right to exercise a legislative veto of Executive Branch actions. Conservatives enthusiastically applauded rulings that strengthened the search-and-seizure powers of law-enforcement officials and that permitted parents in Minnesota to take tax deductions for the costs of educating their children in religious schools. Liberals were equally pleased by reaffirmations of the 1973 freedom-of-choice abortion decision and the denial of tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial...
...rough-and-tumble of Washington politics. During the past 50 years, the theoretically crisp lines of authority have become more blurred, due largely to a device called a "legislative veto." Under this controversial maneuver, Congress drafts a statute broadly but incorporates a provision calling for review of the Executive Branch's implementation of the law. The provision permits one or both houses of Congress-or even a single committee-to block any actions with which they disagree. Since 1932 one or more such provisions have been made part of 210 laws dealing with everything from foreign arms sales...
...relations between the White House and Capitol Hill, there were predictions that it will take years to sort out its myriad implications and bring Congress into full compliance. At least 110 laws are still on the books containing legislative veto provisions, and they cover the gamut of Executive Branch functions. Procedural questions also remain unresolved. Most important is the issue of "severability": Which of the affected laws can be cleansed of their unconstitutional veto clauses, as the court last week ruled was permitted in the immigration law, and which laws must now be thrown away along with their veto provisions...
Other companies have found a wide variety of operations that can be done better underground. For H&R Block, the caves are a safe place to keep tons of tax forms. The U.S. Postal Service's Philatelic Order Fulfillment Branch, with 48 employees, processes 1,200 requests daily from its hole in the ground. It likes the security advantages and the fact that in the low-humidity atmosphere the $100 million worth of stamps it keeps there do not stick together...