Word: branches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...
...phenomenon was not lost on Terrill, who is chief of the Agriculture Department's Sheep and Fur Animal Re search Branch at Beltsville, Md. If the effect could be produced only when the sheep's wool was long, he reasoned, the fibers could easily be pulled, instead of sheared from the animal. And the un skilled farm labor needed for the simplified job would earn only about $2.50 per hour, sharply reducing costs to the wool industry. Taking up the project at Terrill's suggestion, Agriculture Biologist Ethel Dolnick and Physiologist Ivan Lindahl began feeding varying amounts...
...judges claimed that they have inherent powers, as an independent branch of the government, to fix the size and compensation of their staff. Both the tate's laws and its constitution, said he judges, assure the operation of the courts against indifference by the county legislature. Only if it could be proved that their hiring practice was "arbitrary or capricious," they said, could the county deny them funds...
That harsh charge was echoed repeatedly during a three-day congressional hearing on the $25 billion-a-year auto-repair industry-a branch of U.S. business that collects an average $250 annually for each of the 100 million cars on U.S. roads. The public hearing followed an eight-month study that faulted the automakers and the nation's 400,000 auto-service outlets for the high cost and low quality of maintenance...
...from Disneyland. The system will largely consist of Herbert George Klein as his "Director of Communications for the Executive Branch." Said Klein...