Word: branching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was no debate when the History Department considered getting rid of this noisy nuisance," Perkins said. "And now students will be encouraged to branch out more in History...
...probably returned to service in the executive branch confident that his abilities and patience at a bargaining table could help to solve the conflict in Vietnam. After all, conflict-solving through long, often dull talk, had been the premise for Goldberg's entire career. But this time he wasn't a mediator or adversary in a domestic labor dispute; he had involved himself in the more subtle--and far more perplexing--world of international politics. Unlike American labor-management disputes, international opponents find it difficult to agree on ground rules, much less what terms of settlement actually mean...
...group not drawn to the Woodrow Wilson School has been the radicals. There are a few students like Burlingham in the undergraduate branch, but virtually none higher up. So the argument put forth by some critics of the school--that it converts its students into establishment thinkers to begin with...
...Lower East Side shop opened last year by Jeff Click, 25, and Ben Schawinsky, 27, who wanted "to do something legal and be in touch with the beautiful people." Their initial $500 investment turned into a $3,000 a week bonanza, so last October they opened a Greenwich Village branch. Both shops keep psychedelic hours (2 p.m. to 10 p.m.), sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners, "we've reached the Madison Avenue crowd." Among their best-selling items: Japanese colored...
...rights in Africa, Asia. Just over a year ago, ENI created a subsidiary, Snam Progetti,* to build refineries, pipelines and petrochemical plants-even for rivals. Quickly catching on, Progetti is now busy with $360 million of construction projects on four continents. Last week the yearling firm opened a U.S. branch in Manhattan, partly at the urging of such American oil firms as Esso, Phillips and Amoco, for whom it has been building abroad...