Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British public. In Brighton, where the most seriously injured victims of the blast remained under police guard, detectives were following up clues, and bomb experts were sifting through the ruins of the Grand Hotel. Their efforts yielded what Commander Bill Hucklesby, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have...
Even so, GM may have little time to celebrate. The Canadian branch of the U.A.W. has turned down a contract similar to the U.S agreement. Unless the company sweetens its offer, 36,000 workers may strike this week at GM's nine Canadian factories...
Buscetta's revelations offered authorities in both the U.S. and Italy a deeper understanding of the ties between the New York and Sicilian Mobs. They challenge the widely held view of the Mafia as a centrally organized entity with branches in the U.S. and Sicily. Instead, they depict it as a looser network of groups in Sicily, the U.S. and elsewhere, linked by a combination of business, personal and family connections. Buscetta's disclosures, in fact, confirmed what investigators had first suspected several years ago, that there are really two Mafia groups working in the U.S.: one composed...
...Damon A. Silver '86, chairman of the Harvard branch of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), said that "a significant number of people are going to be angry and bitter and active" if Reagan gets reelected. At the same time, a victory for Mondale--whom DSA supports--could make "people say, 'Great. Now I can go back to playing football'" and turn away from activism...
Rolm's specialty is a type of electronic switching system known as a PBX (for private branch exchange). Used primarily in large offices, PBXs relay calls between telephones and data between computers. For more than a decade, IBM has tried unsuccessfully to develop a market-winning PBX. By buying Rolm, IBM is challenging the telecommunications supremacy of AT&T, the largest manufacturer of PBXs. This year AT&T invaded IBM's domain by introducing personal computers and minicomputers...