Word: branches
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most Coveted Low-Paying Job At least 27,000 Muscovites decided they deserved a break today and applied for 605 positions at the new Moscow branch of McDonald's. The company tutored its Soviet employees on how to render in Russian such McLingo as "You want fries with that...
...Israelis appear surprisingly calm about the possibility of an Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...
...court officer visited the Beijing home of Chen Ziming's elderly parents late last month and presented them with an official notice. A branch of the Beijing procuratorate court, the document said, has approved the formal arrest of Chen Ziming on charges of "inciting counterrevolutionary propaganda" and "subversion." A trial could take place as early as this month...
...RATHER surprised at the founding of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) and that my colleagues Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 and Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom appear to be contemplating a Harvard branch. Surprised because I am not aware of anything like an oppressive "politically correct" ideological movement in general on our college campuses, let alone at Harvard...
...much to ask? With the lives of half a million Americans at risk and the prospect of a long-term bloody military entanglement on the horizon, how can a United States Senator contend that a meeting with the executive branch is too much to ask? The time for congressional input is now--before war breaks out and the president's emergency powers give him ultimate latitude in determining day-to-day foreign policy. If Congress wants to play a role the United States' Persian Gulf policy, it must act immediately...