Word: branch
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That assertiveness, he says, will be critical to the new speaker's success as he tries to chart a new course for Massachusetts, particularly with the Republicans in control of the executive branch...
Lamft said that the Boston post office system has "made major strides towards improving the quality of mail delivery service in Cambridge" over the past months. To further improve the system, Lamft proposed the creation of a Cambridge Associated Office almost entirely independent of the Boston branch, with its own postmaster...
Gorbachev left legislators to speculate whether Yeltsin's influence in the new executive branch would be limited to his seat on the enhanced Federation Council or would include some greater form of power sharing. On Friday Yeltsin displayed little tolerance for waiting games. He followed Gorbachev to the podium and warned that the President "must stop making mistakes and clinging to the old system . . . the economic and political crisis in the country has come to a head, the people's patience is coming to an end, and an explosion could occur at any time...
...respect from most other middle-class and wealthy Americans. Today the armed forces are filled mainly by recruits from the lower-middle range of the economic scale, regardless of their race. Blacks and other minorities also make up a disproportionate share of the ranks, especially in the Army, the branch of the service likely to face the heaviest casualties in a protracted ground war. Thus the prospect of fighting is causing the fairness question, which dominated the congressional debate on taxes last month, to return in a new form: Will the U.S. be asking its poor and working classes...
Commercial connections with Iraq have been a source of embarrassment to some companies in Italy and the U.S., among others. Baghdad owes Italian banks < about $2.2 billion, mostly because of unauthorized loans made by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro branch in Atlanta. That scandal, which is still under investigation in the U.S., led to the resignation of B.N.L. directors and the dismissal of nearly everyone connected with the Atlanta branch. In addition, Iraq owes Italy more than $1 billion for warships that were built but never delivered. In a footnote to the gulf crisis, about 90 Iraqi sailors are living...