federal
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Even the atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency that oversees the Internet Time Service, lost five-millionths of a second because of the electrical outages.
Brazil's Supreme Court granted permission for the 70-year-old to be transferred from the room in the federal police headquarters where he is serving his sentence to a hospital in the capital, Brasília, for the procedure.
From BBC
This month, Nike won an initial round when a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana rejected Bartlett’s motion to temporarily restrain Nike from selling its Total 90 products.
The Sikh Coalition also noted that the action was taken under pressure from the federal government.
From Los Angeles Times
“In 1867, Charles Dickens came over to Boston and that’s when he read his ‘Christmas Carol’ for the first time in America,” spurring President Ulysses S. Grant to declare Christmas a federal holiday, Belanger said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
