Word: branch
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Early in January the mainland Chinese government fought another battle in its long campaign to stamp out religious activity outside of its control. In a deliberate snub to the Vatican, the Chinese authorities refused to the Pope's candidates for three empty bishoprics of the government-sanctioned branch of the Catholic Church in China and instead installed its own candidates on the same day the Pope ordained new bishops from all other parts of the world...
...same hopes exist in Allston. After the University's original purchase of land across the river, Harvard wanted to do something in order to show goodwill toward the city, so it donated a portion of land to the city in order to build an Allston branch public library...