Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Black colleges are in financial trouble and need help from the federal government, said Althea T. L. Simmons, chief lobbyist and director of the Washington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Simmons said the NAACP would lobby for more funding because the budget proposal did not allocate sufficient money for the program...
...branch of the Soviet government has been so secretive -- and so dreaded -- as the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), better known as the KGB. The world's largest spy and state-security machine, the KGB employs more than 500,000 people, including thousands of agents abroad. The agency has long been the stuff of shadowy legend, its name synonymous with terror and its doors shut tightly to the public...
...spokesperson for her law firm'sWashington branch said "we're thrilled and excitedfor Judy. It's a wonderful mark of heraccomplishments...
...speaker gave no indication whether the vote would also repeal raises for federal judges and top executive branch officials. Members of Congress would see their annual salaries jump from $89,500 to $135,000 under the proposal...
...House vote will require coordination with the Senate, which voted 95-5 for a more complicated rejection measure last Thursday that included a plan to roll back the increase for Congress and the executive branch officials...