41.   Countrywide Home Loans Inc. in Calabasas, Calif., uses computers in its branch offices to process loan applications.

42.   Customers, such as banks, use the equipment to link computers at branch offices to their machines at their main offices.

43.   Employees say IBM began loosening the dress code in its branch offices a half-dozen years ago as competitors and clients began dressing more casually.

44.   Even so, the Senate Republican caucus, once considered a brake on Gingrichism, is now a branch office of Gingrichism.

45.   For the customer of the sold branch office, that means a new account at a different institution.

46.   Formal patient surveys have shown that visitors are satisfied with the branch office.

47.   Forty U.S. embassies, consulates and branch offices have closed in the past six years.

48.   Forty U.S. embassies, consulates and branch offices have closed in the last six years.

49.   From banks to department stores to TV stations, and even to newspapers, San Francisco is becoming a branch office.

50.   Hannover Re said it will open two new branch offices in Stockholm, one for reinsurance and one for aviation.