Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louise Gerstenblatt just opened their baby eight weeks ago, at 988 Mass Ave opposite the Orson Welles theater, and they have high hopes. Originally from Montpelier, Vermont, they are the Grandpa and Grandma behind "Grandma's Cookie Factory," which is the retail branch of the wholesale cookie business they ran in Montpelier along with their son Jeff, and friend of the family David Peatman. Grandma's offers six kinds of quarter-pound chocolate chip cookies, carrot and other cakes, bagels, and "what we're going to do with ice cream," says 38-year-old Sid, "will blow your mind...
...couple of times I was swimming along, and I'd hit a branch and totally freak out because they told us there were water mocassins in the water," Gauthier said...
...Promised to have at least three tellers on duty in the branch he uses when lines are long...
...Blunt affair came as no shock to the author of this Essay. He was recruited into the M16 branch of British intelligence during World War II, and operated for 18 months as a spy at Lourengo Marques in Mozambique. His boss at M16 headquarters was Kim Philby-as it turned out-of the KGB. "Intelligence gathering, "the author later observed, "is even more fantasy-prone than news gathering. In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree. "He thus retired from spying with some relief...
...declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default for failure by Tehran to pay some $4 million in interest charges. The Iranian central bank retorted that it had instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest was owed, but that the U.S.'s freezing of its assets had prevented the transfer. Asserted an official bank statement released in London (before Banisadr contradicted it): "There is no intention on the part of the Iranian government not to meet its international financial obligations...