Headquarters

Headquarters (HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full responsibility managing all business activities. In the UK, the term Head Office is most commonly used for the HQs of large corporations. The term is also used regarding military organizations.

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Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - Jersey
... provides intensive hands-on management of endangered species at its Jersey headquarters and through 50 conservation programmes in 18 countries worldwide ... Durrell’s headquarters in Jersey is a safe-haven for endangered animals which need to be rescued from whatever is threatening their survival in their native home ... The Trust’s headquarters is also a ‘window’ to the work of Durrell Wildlife around the world - where visitors can enjoy the opportunity to see some of the planet’s most endangered species and ...
Westchester, Los Angeles - Economy
... In 1975 Continental Airlines had its headquarters on the grounds of LAX ... to its dissolution Western Airlines had its headquarters at LAX ... cargo airline Flying Tiger Line had its headquarters at LAX ...
RJR Nabisco - Name Change and Headquarters Move
... right image for a "world-class company", began looking at other possible headquarters cities ... On January 15, 1987, the RJR Nabisco board approved a headquarters move from Winston-Salem to Cobb County, Georgia, north of Atlanta, where the company had rented space ... RJR Nabisco donated the 519,000-square-foot World Headquarters Building to Wake Forest University but continued to use it until the September 1987 move ...
Brisbane - History - Twentieth Century
... Central) was used as the South West Pacific headquarters for General Douglas MacArthur, chief of the Allied Pacific forces, until his headquarters were ... had previously rejected use of the University of Queensland complex as his headquarters, as the distinctive bends in the river at St Lucia could ... Also used as a headquarters by the American troops during World War II was the T G Building ...
Democratic Party Of Albania - Headquarters
... The party's headquarters is located in the center of Tirana, 50m from the Albanian parliament ...

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    What does headquarters think these guys came over here for, a sewing circle? They go up playing for keeps. Cops and robbers with rocks in the snowballs. Brass knuckles and lead pipes and a roughneck conviction they can lick any man in the world.
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    If the national security is involved, anything goes. There are no rules. There are people so lacking in roots about what is proper and what is improper that they don’t know there’s anything wrong in breaking into the headquarters of the opposition party.
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