Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squash is hell, or the "Thank-God-theater-warfare-isn't-played-out-on-four-walls" sport. Having dismissed the Navy Midshipmen in short order before Christmas, the Harvard men's squash team took time off from reding period this weekend to wipe out yet another branch of the armed forces, Army, by a score...
Probing deeper into the ways of the government itself, Fromson illustrates how allegedly cooperative bodies strive to screw one another rather than serve the people. On the Hill, congressional committees sabotage hearings sponsored by other panels in a tragicomic battle for jurisdictional preeminence. Over in the executive branch, Smithers at State witholds information from Cunningham at Commerce because when Cunningham used to work at State they had clashed over who should attend an inter-agency conference sponsored by Treasury. Everyone writes memos and formulates operative alternatives, but most of the time elected officials hear only what they want to hear...
Five-ft., 10-in. guard Mark Branch led all scorers with 21 points and somehow managed to sneak under the towering Harvard zone for a series of classy under-handed...
...Poland's tumultuous year drew to a close, the ranking Solidarity leader still at liberty sent a message of "holiday greetings" to members and "to all our friends in Poland and abroad." Zbigniew Bujak, 27, the underground leader of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, appealed to soldiers and policemen to "listen to their consciences" and "not allow themselves to be used in the waging of war against the nation." Then, addressing himself to the families of the detainees, including Walesa's pregnant wife and six children, Bujak expressed a New Year's wish on behalf...
...together with charts ocating it in the sky and assurances that the name will be locked up safely in a vault in Switzerland and kept on file forever in the Library of Congress. Says Phylis Mosele, 50, an affable mother of twelve who runs the registry's U.S. branch in Northfield, Ill., with her husband...