Word: branch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...baseball bats and even broomsticks that residents are using to secure windows and doors. Fueling the hysteria are unconfirmed reports that the killer sliced off and carried away flesh from some of his victims. Says sheriff's department Lieutenant Spencer Mann: "People are calling in when they hear a branch knock up against the side of their house." Until the killer is apprehended, the good times in Gainesville are over...
...billion-a-year untaxed business operated by groups ranging from motorcycle gangs to Asian drug triads. But the Italian Mafia is still the only group that has infiltrated hundreds of legitimate U.S. industries and labor unions. Despite the wave of new prosecutions, the Cosa Nostra -- and particularly the Genovese branch -- is showing few signs of abandoning these businesses, which today are far more lucrative than such traditional vices as gambling and loan-sharking. "In terms of the Genovese family, I'm afraid we haven't even made a dent," concedes investigator Coffey...
...Ayatullah Khomeini, then, under pressure from the Shah, expelled him. Not only did Saddam want disputed territory, but he was also provoked when Khomeini began calling for the overthrow of Saddam's "blasphemous" regime. He is a Sunni Muslim, though most Iraqis belong to the rival Shi'ite branch, as did Khomeini. Saddam responded by invading, confident that his powerful, Soviet-equipped army could easily smash the Ayatullah's ragtag militia, but the Iranians fought back. When the going got especially rough, Saddam turned to poison gas, a horror weapon outlawed after World...
...countries -- 89 -- than any other. It has more customer accounts -- 20 million worldwide -- including some 1 million in Asia and more than 8 million in Europe. Fully 10% of all Belgian households bank at Citicorp, as do 5% of those in West Germany and 3% in Britain. Its 300-branch consumer bank in Dusseldorf primarily serves factory workers. The firm's New York City-based Private Bank caters to wealthy individuals, offering such services as art-investment advice and estate planning. Citi's corporate customers, says Reed, include "the Daimler-Benzes of the world, the Toyotas of the world...
Smidt is ready to make his move even now: he plans to open a branch of his firm, Ecoplan, in Leipzig. He is well prepared, having spent many a vacation since the early '70s traveling in the East. "What pleases me," he says, "is that after 40 years of totalitarianism, independent thinking remains in the East. The people never identified with the communist state...