Word: branching
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...required again. As the Square becomes ever-more corporatized, such “surgical” methods may again become necessary to attract businesses that fill a hole created by skyrocketing rents. Harvard Square is decidedly less distinctive than it once was. With the arrival of every new bank branch and national chain, the Square loses some of the edge that traditionally set it apart as a funky hangout for college students and eccentric residents of Cambridge. Gentrification and high rents have driven out many longstanding businesses, including late-night diners and bookstores that, besides catering to students, contributed...
Most high school students learn about the wonders of our three-branch government at some point in their education. They are also told of the system of checks and balances that prevents the over-accumulation of power in the hands of any one individual or body...
...Howard, uneasy at the prospect of his handover to Treasurer Peter Costello, which the P.M. had been postponing since 2001, and mistrustful of new labor laws that made wage negotiations individual rather than collective affairs. Many voters, too, bridled at the government's tendency to treat politics as a branch of economics. They wanted a sense that politics was about other things...
...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...incidents seems to belie another essential problem with the strike and its ambitions: the vagary and breadth of the problems it was attempting to confront. The virulent brand of racism that incites someone to threaten or dehumanize another is an endemic societal disaster; Columbia’s plan to branch out into a sensitive neighborhood is a limited point of contention for community discussion. Furthermore, the proposed alterations to university policy would rectify neither of these problems entirely. This puzzling disconnect between the strike’s causes and effects further undermined it. It may have been these issues...