Word: transference
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...continued on to 44, a transfer floor, to get the elevator back up to the office. I had to wait and when I finally got in an elevator, there was this kid, maybe 19 or 20, with his backpack blocking the door. We must have waited about 20 seconds for this guy. I remember I was about to snap at him to move out of the way so that the doors could close, and just then the second plane hit. The elevator shook unbelievably. I thought we were going to into a free fall, but we didn't. Everybody...
...backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
...pass its property and other assets onto the next. Halifax Financial Services, one of the nation's leading home-mortgage firms, calculates that property worth $680 billion will change hands between now and 2020 - about 10% of the total housing stock in the nation and the largest transfer of housing wealth in British history. The impact is so big because the baby boomers have transformed home ownership: about 70% of households now own their own homes, more than double the 31% that did in 1946, according to Halifax, a subsidiary of the financial-services group HBOS. The firm reckons...
...Gracias, Cuadros ." He wrapped his big arms around me. Oso had the maturity to see what an important moment this was at the school. Last year he was playing for Chatham Central because they had started a soccer program the year before and he wanted to play. He had transferred specifically to play on their team but had always wanted to play for JM. When he heard we were going to have a team, he rescinded his transfer and came back to be a Jet. He wore the jersey now with dignified pride...
...world's wealthy to move their assets to Singapore, over the past several years "the government studied Switzerland very closely and created something as good," says Roman Scott, a private-banking expert with Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Among other changes, family-trust laws were amended to make the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next easier?and to offer sanctuary from high estate taxes in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, rules protecting customer confidentiality were strengthened. Divulging private financial information is now punishable by a fine of up to $78,000 and a prison sentence of three...