Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housing situation has also improved for transfer students. Last year transfer students lost their guarantee of on-campus rooms for their senior years because of the housing crunch. While they have not regained that right, they are eligible this year for the new annex housing program...
...varsity athletic teams, and more than 20% were active in student government. Still, the image of Asian Americans as relentless bookworms persists. "If you are weak in math or science and find yourself assigned to a class with a majority of Asian kids, the only thing to do is transfer to a different section," says a white Yale sophomore...
...Nuremberg prison, where he reportedly wrote prodigiously about the Nazis and the war. He believed the Third Reich to be a "legitimate" aspiration of the German people and was convinced that he would be drafted to play a leading role someday in a "Fourth Reich." Even after his transfer to Spandau in 1947, Hess's loyalty to Hitler endured. He initially goose-stepped along the prison corridors, snapping the Nazi salute...
Transplanted Americans can be unwitting victims of the roller-coaster Mexican economy. Velma Dempsey, who has lived in Chapala for 17 years, recalls visiting a bank in 1982 to transfer her life savings from the U.S. Perturbed by the slow-moving line, she went home, planning to return the next day. Overnight, the government expropriated all dollar savings, compensating depositors with pesos. Sighs Dempsey: "I was never so grateful for inefficiency...
...trying to gain "great amounts of information." One such chat occurred at the home of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, whom North has depicted as a sponsor of the diversion scheme, just hours after the incriminating memo was found. Meese insisted that he did not discuss the transfer of funds to the contras with Casey. The Attorney General described a laid-back talk about the diversion with Vice Admiral John Poindexter, who told him, "Ollie has given me enough hints about this so that I generally knew, but I did nothing to follow up or stop it." Satisfied with...