Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than revert to the old seven-week system, the Placement Committee' decided last Friday to stay with the four-week schedule. "The feeling was that the seven week interviewing process had taken over the fall semester," Bernardi explained...
...council's investigation does find any misuse, the funds might revert back to the city. "The shoe would be on the other foot," Pearlman said
...diabetic condition that disabled him. Since then, Sala has drawn some $26,000 in Social Security and Medicare payments. He was legally entitled to every cent. Yet, to repay that amount and cover an estimated $14,000 in future benefits, he has willed $40,000 from his estate to revert to the financially distressed Social Security system. Says he: "I'm an American, and that's like being born a billionaire." At the Social Security Administration's Tampa office, District Manager Elizabeth Lowe advised him of a 1972 law authorizing bequests to the system by citizens. Says...
...concern centers on the July 1, 1997, deadline when, under the terms of Britain's 99-year lease, more than 90% of Hong Kong's land area, the 373-sq.-mi. New Territories, will revert to China. (Treaties signed in 1841 and 1860 give Britain ownership of the remaining 34 sq. mi.-Hong Kong island and portions of Kowloon-" in perpetuity.") Although an arrangement short of total reversion may eventually be worked out between London and Peking, permitting Hong Kong to continue to function as it does now, some fear that China will insist on full sovereignty. That...
...subject is clouded by some complex, tentative provisions of the settlement earlier this year of the Justice Department's antitrust suit against AT&T, which will lead to divestiture of its 22 operating subsidiaries early in 1984. Then ownership of the phones in customers' homes will revert to AT&T, and the local companies will be unable either to rent or sell them to customers. Thus the local companies are now under pressure to sell, so customers are being offered some attractive deals. That standard rotary-dial phone that New York Telephone now rents for $36.36 per year...