Word: branch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Barbara Nagelsmith called the Paris contact, a voice at the other end of the line denied any knowledge of the film and was especially concerned over the mention of a woman at a piscine, the French word for swimming pool. The term also happens to be slang for a branch of the French national intelligence agency...
...must do away completely with all manifestations of disunity. We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and action must proceed from the interests of the whole party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.... We must combat individualism and sectarianism so as to enable our whole Party to march in step and fight for one common goal...
...twelve-year limit might increase influence peddling rather than reduce it, claim the naysayers. To ensure rewarding employment once their terms expire, members of Congress would remain in thrall to the interests that already control them. Maybe so. Yet the Executive Branch has successfully limited the revolving-door syndrome. Restricting postcongressional work in a similar fashion would not be impossible...
Ngau, now 30, became concerned about logging in the late 1970s when its devastating effects began to become apparent. In 1982 he set up a branch of Friends of the Earth in Sarawak to help preserve the forests the Penans call "our bank and our shops." Ngau and his colleagues became investigators, exposing links between logging companies and politicians. Later, when the Penans found the courts stacked in favor of timber interests, they took the desperate step of blockading logging roads. Ngau and Friends of the Earth provided legal help and made the Penans' plight the focus of international protests...
SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, EH, MR. MEESE? It was touted as a "behind-the- scenes account of what's really been going on in the executive branch for the past eight years," and its announced print run of 150,000 copies was that of a sure best seller. But Henry Holt & Co. has quietly decided to cancel Witness to History by Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan's Attorney General. An editor at Holt says Meese has failed to produce: "The fact is, we didn't get anything. Time had run out. We decided to stop pretending." The $250,000 advance will...