Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publicity as weapons, TNC prefers to use gentle persuasion -- and cash. "We have very little to do with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself a former real estate executive. "We have worked with them and even lent them money...
...match Reagan's mastery of television. Nor did their well-worn looks do much to cast their party as the face of the future. But their very lack of New Age video appeal made them seem convincing as leaders of a Congress that will assert itself as an equal branch of Government. Now they face their real challenge, which, as Wright said of the President, involves not rhetoric but reality. Can they present an alternative to Reagan's agenda that is not merely a call for more spending programs financed through higher taxes and dangerous cuts in defense...
...tunnels run from Cambridge Electric Light Company on Western Avenue through the College to the Law School's Langdell Hall. One branch travels through the Weeks footbridge to the Business School. The poorly lit corridor passes through the hollow interior of the bridge and is sealed off from the main passageways by locked doors...
...million last year on revenues of only $400 million. Nonetheless, the 80-year-old Amica has earned a top grade from the monthly Consumer Reports and an A-plus billing from the A.M. Best insurance-company rating service. With a modest crop of 400,000 customers and only 39 branch offices across the country, Amica has consciously avoided increasing its size to match its reputation. Says Amica Vice President Charles E. Horne: "We address a very small segment of the market, and we try to do it well. We simply seek not to be the biggest...
...Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night of the week...