bureau
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She arrived at CNN in 1983, working as a news desk assistant in Atlanta and then at its New York bureau with the ambition of becoming a foreign correspondent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The bureau added it was working on the investigation with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The letters were sent to addresses including secretary of state offices and related election offices, the bureau said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Manfred D, who was Hanning's bureau chief and remained in the BND until this year, is charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In an internal memo, Clyde Tolson, the associate director of the bureau, who had become Hoover’s longtime companion, spawning rumors that they were romantically involved, said, “We should furnish only limited, routine material, if any.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Proponents of the measure say the current system of overseeing public works is ineffective because responsibility is spread among multiple officials, commissions, agencies and bureaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
One long-shot strategy: turn the government bureaus that handle marriage paperwork into swoon-worthy destinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Your accounts with the credit bureaus “were” or “had been” frozen?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
We still had our beds and chairs and bureaus and dining-room furniture, so we could get along, but even so, the house was bare and echoey.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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Guests were seen hugging, making calls, texting friends and loved ones, and their news bureaux.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
"Incidentally, we have also studied enemy weapons quite well, which were taken as trophies and dismantled to the last screw at our military construction bureaux," Medvedev added.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2023
In-store travel money bureaux, which are located in more than 100 stores, are unaffected.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2021
She mastered the technique, and set up her own lacquerware workshop in Paris in 1910, producing screens, chairs, tables, bureaux, beds and dressing tables for some of the city’s richest clients.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2020
George had begged his friend to visit the wife of a poor law-writer who occasionally copied for the Assessor, and for whom the latter had often obtained employment in the Government bureaux.
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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