Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President assured most civil servants that they could keep their jobs, but questions remained concerning changes in policy and personnel outside the bureaucracy. "This is a government that doesn't even have a typewriter," said Presidential Spokesman Rene Saguisag, 45. Indeed, it had been so long since + the last transfer of power in the Philippines--1965--that no one in or out of government knew precisely how to go about...
Finding his agency increasingly on the defensive, NASA's acting administrator William Graham ordered the immediate transfer of Moore to head the Johnson Space Center. Although the move had been in the works before the Challenger disaster, the speedy transfer permitted Graham to bring in a new and wholly untarnished leader for the shuttle program. He is Rear Admiral Richard Truly, 48, who had spent 14 years as a NASA astronaut and whose last duty before leaving the agency in 1983 was to command a flight of the Challenger. Departing from his post as head of the Naval Space Command...
...Dickens, such pluck and clarity of intent are completely captivating. A dud in bookkeeping class but an outstanding English student, Simon manages a transfer to an academic high school. Her lively essays attract attention. She has other notable attributes: blond hair, blue eyes, a sensuous mouth and a fortune in cheekbones. But even James Monroe High is a bit restricting. Foreshadowing the future world traveler, she writes, "I had no time for step- by-step projects; the urgent need was for swift voyages, with short stops at many ports of call...
Smith was the last man to govern Rhodesia under white minority rule before the country became Zimbabwe in 1979. He fought a civil war for a decade before acceding to Black rule and overseeing the transfer of power to current Prime Minister Robert Mugabe...
Fighting back, of course, has its consequences. Primarily obstetricians and orthopedic surgeons, these physicians' convenient circumvention of medical principle has resulted in the inconvenient and dangerous transfer of accident victims and women in labor to Boston hospitals. Whether this kind of "dumping" of patients onto other hospitals constitutes illegal collusion or strike activity is debatable...