Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Appearing on ABC's Issues and Answers, a former member of the Iranian executive branch, ex-Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotzbadeh, endorsed the legislators' call for releasing the hostages in batches. Later on the same program, however, Muskie reiterated the longstanding U.S. insistence that all of the American captives be freed at once...
...months ago, the count was up to 33,457. Naturally, the number of offices has also shot up - by 57% in the past five years. And restaurants (mainly French) and stores (mainly chic). In 1976 Bloomingdale's set out to surround the District by opening one branch in Virginia and then, six months later, by placing another in Maryland. Neiman-Marcus and I. Magnin soon followed. For those who admire such things, there could be no surer sign that Washington had arrived...
...point to the perennial debates about whether the basic constitutional structure of the office should be "modernized." Certainly we should consider such proposals as limiting the President to a single six-year term, or creating a second vice presidency to assist with day-to-day oversight of the Executive Branch. However, while we can dream about tinkering with the constitutional arrangements, the fact of the matter is that whoever is President for the next four years will have to deal with the office as it is - including all of its frustrations, its limitations and its demands...
...Elvis on your 12-in. TV? Do you want to relive those glory days in a movie theater? Then go straight to a revival of The Girl Can't Help It or The T.A.M.I. Show, because The Idolmaker is something else, and less. I recalls one withered branch of pop nostalgia: the South Philly sound of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, which is to genuine early rock as Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) recommended in a report to Dean Rosovsky yesterday that the Faculty eliminate the interdisciplinary Committee on International Studies as soon as its programs can be transferred to another branch of the University...