Word: transferal
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...might argue that corporations already pay taxes to governments to deal with social and environmental problems. Jones: But if, by engaging in the community, a company can do more good than just by putting money back into society through its investors, it should do so ... Equally, there is some transfer of learning back from the community into the company, so that it understands more about the issues. The real question is, who adds value most? Also, charities today can become commerce tomorrow. A Vodacom project to provide micro-financing to local entrepreneurs bringing mobile communications to remote areas of South...
...Tennessee, the Slattery family took refuge in Houston, and Tommy and his father snuck back to New Orleans to salvage what they could from their home—one of the few that hadn’t been flooded. By this time, Slattery had waited too long to transfer to other schools, holding out hope that Tulane would reopen for the semester. The only schools that Slattery knew were still accepting students were Harvard and a Panhandle-area community college, so he submitted an application to Harvard. He learned of his acceptance on a Thursday and by Saturday...
...democratic transfer of leadership? Unlikely. Nothing in Musharraf's actions over the past eight years indicate that he is ready to relinquish power just yet. It's just as likely that the general will turn away from messy deals with politicians and simply declare emergency rule. Doing so would allow him to maintain both his titles, and postpone elections for another year. The U.S. has already once persuaded him not to do that, citing concerns about maintaining democracy in Pakistan, but if Musharraf senses his own survival is at stake, Washington's leverage may not be enough to dissuade...
...replacement cell type, [parthenogenesis] can be advantageous,” he said. “But if you want to create cell lines that might be representative of all of the genetic components in someone who has a disease like ALS, for example, you need to do nuclear transfer...
Somatic nuclear transfer is the process Hwang and his team claimed to have successfully performed in early 2004. Late the following year, Hwang’s research was discredited, as were other claims that he had cloned a dog. The disgraced scientist was also fired from his post at Seoul National University...