Word: branch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...She’s fun, she’s likable, but very much serious about the campaign,” says Markus R.T. Kolic ’09, the co-chair of the undergraduate branch of Harvard Students for Edwards. “I was impressed, honestly...
...limited to the dictator's henchmen and their families. Today it houses many of those trying to build a new Iraq, including members of parliament and the families of officials who work in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. One afternoon, officials from the government's judicial branch squared off in a soccer game against employees of the executive branch. It was the kind of scene you almost never see on the evening news: teenagers from the neighborhood playing freely while men at a nearby outdoor caf talked politics over sheesha and sweet amber-colored Iraqi tea. Some...
...January upon joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), Hanoi this month is lifting restrictions on multinational banks operating in the country that prevented them from competing on an equal footing with domestic lenders. Previously, foreign banks were limited in their ability to acquire depositors and were allowed only one branch per city, among other constraints. But to get into the WTO, Hanoi promised to open its financial-services sector to the world faster than almost any other member. (China, which joined the WTO in 2001, had five years to open its banking market.) Already, eight foreign banks have applied...
...only five years because the court found that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Most disappointing, the judge seemed eager to absolve the Serbian government and, to some extent, the accused. She called the Scorpions an "irregular volunteer unit," insisted they had no relationship with any branch of government in Serbia, and said there was no evidence that the deceased were from Srebrenica or were victims of the genocide...
...human welfare.” A letter to President-elect Drew G. Faust calling for “a more socially conscious technology transfer policy” at Harvard was also available for students to sign. Connie E. Chen ’08, a member of the Harvard branch of UAEM, explained in an interview afterward that while the connection between university licensing policies and drug affordability has not been widely discussed within the global health community, she was “astounded” by the eager responses from students, researchers, and even political leaders on the issue. Kim?...