A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

"Eminent domain is like a knife, " says Vince Lepore, a Long Branch activist who fought against Pier Village.

WSJ: Battle of the Beach

Clara went back to work (the new pills she was taking had done wonders for her outlook), and, shortly afterward, management, perhaps to pay her back for such a long absence, transferred her to a branch in another Andalusian city, though not very far away.

NEWYORKER: Clara

State Street long ago abandoned a branch network and recently stopping lending to companies.

ECONOMIST: American banks