Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drums. "We can enforce our environmental laws or ignore them," he railed. "Thus far, the Administration has done everything pos sible to ignore them." Scheuer said he plans to introduce legislation this week to restructure the EPA as an agency run by an independent commission, apart from the Executive Branch...
...pebbles ever so slightly altering the course of the tide pouring through the area. Within the past two months, it was announced that two of the oldest establishments in Cambridge--Schoenhol's and pangloss Bookstores--will soon close down to make room for a new office complex. And another branch of the Au Bon Pain chain has replaced. The Crimzon Shop in the choice Holyoke Center location...
...dawn broke the next day, the guerrillas returned with a vengeance. Some 500 members of the People's Revolutionary Army, a branch of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), descended on Berlin. Raking the town with automatic-weapons fire and rocket-propelled grenades, they devastated the puny garrison, killing or wounding four policemen and capturing or driving away the rest. The guerrillas sacked and burned Berlin's pharmacies and dry-goods stores, robbed the only local bank of $160,000, and rocketed the town's postal and telex offices. Local residents were herded into...
...State of the Union message is required by the Constitution. The founders intended that it serve as a channel of information from the Executive Branch to the Legislative Branch. For a century, Presidents wrote the message and had it delivered by hand to Congress. Today the actual State of the Union report is not one event but a whole series of special messages that tumble out of the White House for weeks. The address itself is only the preface...
From a management point of view, the obvious reason to muffle the closing was its bitter irony. The flight of Detroiters to the suburbs afflicted the city and accelerated Hudson's demise, but--embarrassingly--Hudson's itself had been intimately involved in promoting this suburban growth. By opening branch stores in suburban outlets, Hudson's had actually sapped the pull of its flagship store; down-playing the store's ultimate failure was, then, more than understandable...