Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister to the Premier"-his father's right-hand man-he moved in on other Cabinet members, virtually running the Greek economy. To prove his Greekness, he abruptly canceled Voice of America rebroadcasts, was quoted as making anti-NATO statements (which he later denied), and forced the transfer of the U.S. Information Agency chief from Athens...
...less successful were the Argentine generals who ousted Arturo Frondizi in 1962 only to compound their country's problems and transfer the mess to a weak President Arturo Illia. In the Dominican Republic, the military overthrew the inept Juan Bosch, then turned over power to a triply inept civilian triumvirate. And in Honduras, the army officers who toppled President Ramon Villeda Morales last year are slowly running the country's faltering economy into the ground...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The Met is hustling to complete new galleries and other surprises it plans to unwrap later this season. Meanwhile, there is still plenty to see: ancient Peruvian ceramics, fashion vignettes, English transfer-printed pottery, and the customary wealth of great paintings...
Volpe feels that the question of state constitutional reform, though a highly sophisticated issue, may decide the election. Having hedged for several months, the ex-Governor has finally come out strongly for House Bill 3000, which would transfer the statutory powers of the Governor's Council to the Governor. A constant hurdle to firm executive leadership, and frequently a den of corruption, the Council has drawn fire from nearly all of the state's independent political organizations. Bellotti, who several years ago advocated abolishing the Council, now says that he "could live with it." This stand may cost...
...Slight Ache is more tense and aggressive than most plays by Pinter, who usually floats his characters toward realization of inner predicaments on a stream of small talk and petty routine. Here, however, the characters slide quickly into a current of self-revelation that sweeps on to a grim transfer of identities at the end. Though Stefan and Benedict wring an ironic humor out of their parts, there is no room in A Slight Ache for the mocking tedium that helps to cushion the themes of The Caretaker and The Dumbwaiter...