Word: branch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military hardware between 1981 and 1988. Iraq was able to buy sophisticated technology for its missile- development program from willing, or gullible, firms in Britain, Italy, Germany and the U.S. To finance those purchases, the cash-strapped Saddam needed a friendly banker. He found at least two: the Atlanta branch of Italy's largest bank and Uncle...
...most shameless among us speak elaborately about some category labeled "Public Interest Law." Try quizzing the PILs on this. Do you mean work as a public defender? No. Oh, do you mean work for some branch, maybe federal or something, of the government? Possibly, something like that, you know, useful. Where I can make a difference...
...establishing a broader financial relationship with Cardmembers," reads an internal marketing piece. "In time, we plan to offer several savings and investment products" -- IRAs and annuities, for example. With millions of affluent cardholders, Amex can quickly accumulate tens of billions of dollars in deposits with nary a bank branch or broken ball-point...
...start. Especially for the circulating libraries, N.Y.P.L. is dependent on money from the city, and New York has been in worse than usual straits since the 1987 stock-market crash. "I think I was chosen because they wanted someone who could care enormously about both the research and branch aspects of the library," says Healy. As a scholar, he acknowledges that he is more attuned to the 88 miles of stacks at the main library, one of the half a dozen foremost research libraries in the world. But, he adds, "the branches are one * place where, when...
Healy is wading into turbulent shallows. He is holding a series of dinners with branch librarians, and they are fast stripping him of any illusions. Videos get lifted wholesale, and the staff must be on constant patrol to keep drug dealers, often teenagers themselves, from preying on children. When the building closes, the librarian-baby-sitter must figure out what to do with very little kids whom no one has claimed...