Word: transferal
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...defaces HITLER head at Berlin wax museum. Wax Goebbels requests transfer to Buenos Aires branch...
Serious problems remain, however. Some Japanese firms are wary of selling their best technology to China out of a justified fear that it could be stolen. Beijing's lax protection of intellectual-property rights "is the biggie that is hampering technology transfer into China," says Jennifer Turner, director of the China Environment Forum at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center. In other cases, such as solar-power generation, the technology is simply too expensive for China...
...rescue operation was dubbed Jaque - which means "check," as in checkmate, in Spanish - and was indicative of how deeply Colombia's military intelligence has been able to infiltrate the FARC's top hierarchy, the secretariat, in recent months. A government mole had been able to convince those bosses to transfer Betancourt and the 14 other hostages to the encampment of the FARC's new No. 1 leader, Alfonso Cano. Under the yoke of a FARC unit led by Comandante Cesar, the group made its way to a smaller camp belonging to a friendly NGO. "They tied our hands and feet...
...Using only these four factors, we can predict pregnancy with an accuracy of 70%," says Dr. Mylene Yao, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford and lead author of the study. "And it's extremely interesting that the four factors do not actually relate to the embryos that are transferred to the womb. So while it's still important to identify the best embryos for transfer, this suggests that we shouldn't neglect all the other embryos and the information that we can extract from them...
...plan unraveled within two months. Only two units were "sold," prosecutors say, and a bank wire transfer of $690,000 to an account held by Rivera led to the arrests. The bogus sale price of the homes may have been the giveaway. "Generally, where there's been the fastest price appreciation is where we've seen the greatest incidents of mortgage fraud," says John Mechem, spokesman for the Mortgage Bankers Association...