Word: transference
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pointed to overcrowding as a major source of stress in a tumultuous admissions season—in addition to changes in financial aid and early admission, the College announced it would not be accepting transfer students for the next two years, despite receiving over 1,300 applications for transfer admission...
...feeling about being under all of those freshmen next year? 14) Have there been any stained blue dress incidents in Mass Hall? 15) How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? 16) Why do you hate transfer students? 17) If you could select one undergrad to give you a deep tissue massage, who would it be? 18) Why does BusinessWeek hate you? 19) Truth or dare? 20) Would you like to play a game of Scrabble? No, Seriously. Play Scrabble with...
...entire focus was at the tactical level. The staff had neither the experience nor training to operate at the strategic level, much less as a joint/combined headquarters. All of CFLCC's generals, whom we called the Dream Team, left the country in a mass exodus. The transfer of authority was totally inadequate, because CENTCOM's focus was only on departing the theater and handing off the mission. There was no focus on postconflict operations. None! In their minds, the war was over and they were leaving. Everybody was executing these orders, and the services knew all about...
...DeBergalis would come up short, even as he won more “first-place votes” than one of the candidates who was ultimately elected. Cambridge’s distinctive method of voting did him in because after the “transfer votes” were counted, DeBergalis had dropped from ninth to tenth place, and out of a council seat—a result of the fact that he had little of a following outside of the two elite universities...
...bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part of its diplomatic policy and has also suspended its lucrative "loans" of the animals to zoos around the world because of the species' increasing endangered status. (Most recently, a pair was offered to Taiwan - considered a domestic transfer by China - but the couple was refused by Taipei...