Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of what Congress does legally would put Executive Branch members behind bars. If White House chief of staff John Sununu, for example, were to take himself and his eight children to Disneyland at the expense of the coal industry so it could talk to him about the disadvantages of clean-air legislation, he would probably be accused of accepting a bribe. Yet industry- sponsored trips are a major form of recreation for some members of Congress and their staffs...
...Congress amended the IRS code, making it a felony for the agency to provide or even discuss confidential tax-return information with most outsiders, including the FBI and the Justice Department, without a federal court order. The revised Section 6103 was designed to prevent Executive Branch officials from obtaining tax information on political enemies, Richard Nixon- style. But critics maintain that the reform has turned the IRS, which is possibly the Government's most feared civilian bureaucracy, into an agency that answers...
Somebody in the tense corridors of the U.S. Capitol last week called it the "ethics monster," an animal bred and trained by Democrats to feed on sleaze in the Executive Branch over the past 20 years. But the beast has broken loose in Washington and is devouring its congressional handlers. The consternation is palpable...
Israel's continuing refusal to acknowledge Arafat's olive branch presents him with a growing dilemma. While he had hoped that the start of a U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue last December would result in pressure on Israel, that has not happened...
...such reasons, a grim mood seemed evident among brokers last week. "If you can survive this period in the business," a Chicago moneyman said, "you can survive just about anything." But some managers saw no end to hard times. Mused Desmond Heathwood, chief investment officer of the Los Angeles branch of Boston Co., a unit of Shearson Lehman: "To have one's job will be the bonus this year...