Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cooke walked into the Soviet embassy three times in broad daylight - twice last December and once in May. An FBI camera caught him on one of the December visits, but agents were unable to identify him until March. The FBI then alerted the Air Force security branch, which arrested Cooke after his May contact with the Soviets. His Air Force superiors evidently reasoned that it was less important to punish him than to find out what, if any, secrets he had divulged. So they offered him immunity from prosecution in return for his full story...
...newest crisis is the virtual bankruptcy of the Regional Transportation Authority, which runs the Chicago-area bus and rail system. Byrne needs help from the state government, but she is not being conciliatory. If necessary, she says, the city is prepared to absorb the R.T.A. "as another branch of city government." A similarly defiant attitude during a transit crisis two years ago cost the system its state operating subsidy and the legal principle of equal treatment with state highways. The resulting deficit was met via a 20% increase in the city sales...
...moment Reagan took office. A week after his Inauguraton, the President issued an Executive Order freezing, for 60 days, all the so-called midnight regulations that had been passed in the final days of the Carter Administration. Two weeks later, another Executive Order required that the 150 major Executive Branch agencies of Government undertake cost-benefit analyses before proposing enactment of significant new rules...
...position of key aid to the South Dakota speaker of the house by the beginning of her senior year in college. And this year, while several of her classmates were still looking for employment. Forman's political savvy and experience won her a job with the Washington branch of Decision Making Inc., a research firm headed by Richard Wirthlin, President Reagan's chief polister and political strategist...
Allied Bank thus joins a growing list of U.S. banks that have been victimized by unscrupulous employees. Earlier this year, California's Wells Fargo Bank was bilked out of some $21 million in a scam involving bogus transfers between branch offices, and last week reports surfaced of a $20 million loan fraud scheme at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City...