Word: branches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SENTENCED. WANG XUEBING, 51, former Bank of China president, to 12 years' jail for accepting bribes; in Beijing. Wang, once a protégé of former Premier Zhu Rongji and a proponent of Chinese banking reform, ran the bank's New York branch during a period when a borrower defaulted on $34 million in fraudulent loans. The bank had to pay $20 million in fines to U.S. and Chinese regulators, but won $106.4 million in a lawsuit against the client...
...variety of colleges—especially New England liberal-arts schools—use a so-called “J-term” to offer students the chance to branch out from traditional curricular offerings...
Nkosi has always been comfortable with different types of media. She graduated from the Johannesburg branch of the Waldorf School, one of a group of experimental schools worldwide. “It was just a very physical environment. You were always working with your hands,” she says. She learned knitting, basketmaking, bookbinding and weaving...
...Timor's 1999 bloody independence drive. Silaen is still wanted by Dili prosecutors for his alleged connections to militia that killed more than 1,000 independence supporters (he was acquitted of similar charges in Jakarta). Meanwhile, the most notorious of Dili's militia leaders, Eurico Guterres, is establishing a branch of his Red and White Defenders Front in Papua. Sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Jakarta court for his part in East Timor killings, Guterres is free on bail pending an appeal...
...University as an institution is not taking legal action because it seems to us that the question is heavily a political one in terms of the decisions of the Congress and executive branch,” Summers said...