Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Germany's embassy. Inside, West German guards nervously scanned the garden walls. Both forces were trying to stem a small flood of East German citizens who had been pouring into the embassy compound, at one point scaling the walls to gain asylum and the hope of eventual transfer to the West. At week's end about 100 refugees were huddled inside the former Czechoslovak palace, to the embarrassment of the Bonn government and the further complication of ties between the two Germanys...
...fastest machines can be used as formidable weapons for international sabotage. By programming a high-speed computer to dial every phone number in Japan, for instance, one could eventually reach telephone lines that tap directly into the Bank of Japan. Any disruption of the bank's computerized funds-transfer system risks wreaking havoc with the Japanese economy...
...situation was so tight this year that the Mather House masters experienced more than 10 percent attrition, while others, including Mather, had and some students apparently were ready to take matters into their own hands. When some Mather students wanted to transfer to North House, where some empty beds remained, the masters of both Houses were willing. But they were told by the College that it was against College policy, which tries to maintain the ideals of the residential House system, including the sense of identity for three years with one House, with all its facilities, tutorial staff, and fellow...
...network, the fifteen year-old Harvard Information Transfer System (HITS), performs "relatively routine" tasks such as telecasting medical school seminars and transmitting data. Pandiscio added that because HITS is built with outdated technology, it only has the capacity to carry one program at any given time...
...purchase of a telecommunications firm was logical and perhaps inevitable. Reason: the instant transfer of information between computers that may be thousands of miles apart is almost as important as the work that goes on inside the machines. As a result, the telecommunications and computer industries are converging. IBM and Rolm are believed to be preparing to unveil a desktop terminal, code-named Mesquite, that will function as both a telephone and a personal computer...