So the next time a branch of Starbucks is burgled, let them sort it out themselves.
The last time a branch of the federal government experienced such a significant increase in average I.Q., experts said, was the executive branch in 2009.
The award represents the first time a branch of the military has turned over to a private company the responsibility and risk of operating and maintaining its entire network of computer systems.
Now, only a matter of yards away, there stood a signifier for harder times: a branch of Cash 4 Clothes, offering money for "all good quality reusable clothing, paired shoes, belts, handbags, jewellery, perfumes, and soft toys" – a de facto pawnbroker for people with precious little left to pawn.
Nowadays this force is answerable to state governors, but its spirit continues to be shaped by its time as a branch of the army during Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship.
That was Consolidated Lab, which at that time was a branch of Republic Pictures.
While it is the 27th time the college, a branch of Long Island University, has been host of such a conference, its organizers hope this year's version will gain wider notice, putting it in a league with established conferences like Bread Loaf in Vermont and Sewanee in Tennessee.
Lycian culture was at one time viewed as a branch of Greek culture by scholars, especially from the Classical period onwards, when Lycian architecture and sculpture were very much in the Classical Greek style.
And this means that the more nostalgic of us, the more sentimental get carried away every time we walk into a branch of Zavvi or Fopp or HMV.
Around that time, Martell's West, a branch of Martell's on the Upper East Side and Martell's Grill in Midtown, is to open at 513 Columbus Avenue (84th Street).
HONOLULU — President Obama declared for the first time on Saturday that a branch of Al Qaeda based in Yemen sponsored the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an American passenger jet, and he vowed that those behind the failed attack "will be held to account".
