Word: transferable
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However, representatives from the Housing Office were quick to note that the two years couldn't be compared due to drastic changes in the transfer process. Students can now request a transfer to a particular house only if they know of a larger existing group in the house with whom they will room. Students who wish to transfer to a particular house but only know an equal or smaller number of possible roommates in the other house face the possibility of ending up in their old house with their friends required to transfer. Otherwise, students can specify three houses they...
...Carnesale, as part of the transfer, was put in charge of a complete restructuring of the OIT--including the termination of 93 employees--because of his negotiation abilities and his talent in handling rough issues such as this one, a source said. Then-vice president of finance Alan J. Proctor was unable to stomach the administrative drudgery necessary to construct compromise in Harvard's terminally decentralized environment...
...really useful to say that the records could be misused by a few people, so let's remove access for everyone," says Jeff Alperin of Information America, one of the world's largest providers of public records and investigative services. "How in the world could you transfer property if you didn't know who owned...
Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones of the Web: the language for encoding documents (HTML, hypertext markup language); the system for linking documents (HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol); and the www.whatever system for addressing documents (URL, universal resource locator...
...wave of publicity surrounding the guidelines may certainly give people new ideas about suing, and there will always be the occasional surprising decision. Two years ago, for instance, a severely depressed attorney who worked for the San Francisco utility Pacific Gas & Electric asked for shorter work weeks and a transfer to a more understanding supervisor. According to the employee's lawyer, he filed suit when the company refused, and talks broke down over the plaintiff's request for positive evaluations should the company rehire him. A court-appointed arbitrator ordered the utility to pay $1.1 million to the plaintiff. (Federal...