Word: branch
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...study will give these countries more treatment options," said Dr. Lynne M. Mofenson, the associate branch chief for clinical research in the pediatric, adolescent and maternal AIDS branch at National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
...branch of the Framingham-based office supply empire Staples opened its newest store on the corner of JFK and Winthrop Streets at the beginning of September...
...trading scene - a king pin, if you will. "You need a bit of savvy," he explains. Falcao has come a long way since he stuck his first seven pins into a pizza box after the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. That's when he decided to branch out from stamps, license plates and baseball caps. His priorities are, in descending order: guest, media, national, and limited-edition corporate-sponsor pins. He claims his collection stands at 25,000. "I've given out 5,000 pins in exchange for a smile," he says. Falcao prides himself on his diplomacy...
...from another gambling case. He relocated to Las Vegas but kept up ties to the hometown bookies. As a local bookie told a potential customer, in a conversation picked up on wiretaps, "We're a pretty big operation. We're based in Las Vegas, and I work this local branch. We're a full-tilt operation...
...really that easy for the U.S. government to keep someone in solitary for nine months on evidence so shoddy that once the facts have to be produced, 98% of the charges get dropped? As Judge James Parker said last week, "The Executive Branch has enormous power, the abuse of which can be devastating to our citizens." And it exercises this power more often than you might think...