Word: branch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President said that segregation of pupils must be eliminated root and branch, and that it must be done at once. School desegregation is a racial problem. It's raw racial prejudice, and there's no other name...
Whole Passel. Nixon observed that he was "finally bringing real business management at the very highest level into the Executive Branch of Government." But separating goals from their execution may be more difficult than it sounds. On paper, Ehrlichman and Shultz will be equals, each with his own staff, each with his own line of communication to the President. Haldeman will continue as overall coordinator of White House activities. How the setup works out will depend on the durability and chemistry of the individuals involved. It will be Ehrlichman's task to pull together and reconcile the aspirations...
This February, when radical students from the University of California, Santa Barbara, burned down the Bank of America branch office at Isla Vista, the New Left suffered a significant moral setback. A majority of moderates, on and off campus, condemned the act and the ideology that sparked it as outrageous. In the weeks that followed, most moderates denied that police and public officials were overreacting to the community's small radical faction, despite the accidental police shooting of Student Kevin Moran (TIME...
...anyone who wanted to advocate political and social change. But last week the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously overturned that decision and upheld the right of the authorities to keep files on all demonstrators, whether peaceful or violent. Said the court: "The basic approach must be that the executive branch may gather whatever information it reasonably believes to be necessary to enable it to perform the police roles-detectional and preventive...
...house, offers a valuable distribution system-a national network of offices with many customers-for the new securities issues that are a major part of Glore Forgan's business. As a cost-saving measure, Du Pont in the past year has been forced to pare back from Ill. branch offices to 95; it will now absorb 20 Glore Forgan offices. More important, Du Pont will add some $18 million to its $62.5 million capital-an infusion that it sorely needs. Though Du Font's 13-to-l ratio of capital to liabilities is well within legal limits...