Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chavan's chances of forming a coalition government seem slim; his own base of support, a branch of the divided Congress Party, holds only 77 seats in the 542-member Lok Sabha (lower house). Since no party wants a mid-term general election, the best bet at week's end was that Charan Singh, 76, the powerful leader of the new breakaway Janata (secular) Party, would be the next in line to form a government if Chavan did not succeed. If all else fails, the country could be forced to accept a weak and interim nonpartisan "national government...
Halfway through his victory lap, a spectator handed Sebastian Coe a hazel branch with the Union Jack attached. Holding the flag high, the slender Englishman rounded the track at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway, while more than 16,000 spectators rose to a standing ovation. But it was not until he reached the athletes' reception center, where his fellow competitors applauded him, that Coe understood what the rumpus was about. Said he: "That really made what I did sink in for the first time...
...Stevens. The union is stirring up activist groups against Sea men's by pointing out that the bank makes most of its mortgage loans to borrowers outside metropolitan New York. The ACTWU has also enlisted political, labor and religious groups to help block the bank from opening a branch on Long Is land...
...certain common interests, if not a common fate. As New York's Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, has written: "Different as the press and the federal judiciary are, they share one distinctive characteristic: both sustain democracy, not because they are responsible to any branch of Government, but precisely because, except in the most extreme cases, they are not accountable at all. Thus they are able to check the irresponsibility of those in power...
Conservationist Felipe Benavides president of the Peruvian branch of the World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of the Vicuña, deny that the beast is threatened. Brack insists that the population is increasing so rapidly (by 23% a year) that the culling should not have any harmful long-range effect...