Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does that mean the relationship revert to the cozy intimacy of former years, when the Attorney General sometimes too readily did the bidding of his boss? Replies Smith: "Obviously, the Justice Department has to be independent, but it is part of the Executive Branch. Independence relates only to certain kinds of activities; for instance, those involving the White House itself." People who know both Reagan and Smith are convinced that there is no cause for concern. Smith, one of three managing partners of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the second largest law firm in Los Angeles, has a solid reputation for being...
...leaders late last month declared a moratorium on strikes and urged the impatient rank and file to give the government some breathing space. Not only was the strike moratorium being heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more militant locals were sounding almost repentant. The Warsaw branch said talk of a general strike had been a "mistake"-despite the fact that the workers' pressure won the release of two imprisoned Solidarity sympathizers. Similarly, leaders of the railway workers said it had been an "error" to shut down commuter lines in Gdansk and Warsaw several weeks...
Today, Fernandez again finds himself in the middle. A division operations manager in A.T.&T.'s Pittsburgh branch, he works full-time for the sprawling company--then goes home to write books attacking the system. He has published two so far--"Black Managers in White Corporations" and "Racism and Sexism in Corporate America." "I do it to keep my sanity," Fernandez explains...
...sound trendy. The 1930 recommendation of "respect for the physical earth" glosses into ecology and environmentalism. "The South can well afford to be backward" may be twisted into relevance as a plea for the "zero-sum society." Agrarianism, in fact, can be defined with glib hindsight as a Southern branch of "neo-conservatism...
...union's chief demand. They released Jan Narozniak, a union volunteer, and Piotr Sapelo, a government employee, both of whom had been arrested on charges of stealing a secret state plan for cracking down on dissidents. The 13-page document was uncovered when police raided the Warsaw branch of Solidarity, the national federation of Poland's new independent unions and their estimated 10 million members...