Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 90 percent of the students at FCC this year are freshmen, and, for the first term, at least, the faculty is offering them 11 so-called core courses. There are also a small number of business classes, and various advanced courses of a more specialized nature for the transfer students. The core courses are inter-disciplinary, within the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences...
...main factors were behind the coup. For one thing, even though the Guard had supported him during the election, Arias reawakened the officers' longstanding animosity by trying to weaken the Guard's grip on the country's political life. He threatened to transfer, and in one case exile, a number of the leading officers. In addition, after he won a landslide victory over former Finance Minister David Samudio, Arias outraged many Panamanians by undertaking a series of unsavory political maneuvers designed to give his followers a majority in the 42-seat National Assembly...
Last spring, Rhody McCoy, unit administrator of the Ocean Hill district, asked Superintendent of Schools Bernard E. Donovan to transfer ten teachers out of the district schools. Donovan agreed to move the teachers if McCoy avoided making a public issue of the transfer. But McCoy wanted more than the removal of the ten instructors. Seeking a public confrontation over the community's right to hire and fire, McCoy publicly accused the teachers of incompetence and of sabotaging the district's experiment in community control. The union demanded a hearing and the issue was joined...
...shot into space. In addition to the Saturn 5 rocket and the Apollo command and service modules, the package will include the trouble-plagued lunar module (LM) that is destined, eventually, to land on the moon. The mission will include space walks, rendezvous and docking maneuvers, and the first transfer in space of astronauts between Apollo...
...Required Reading. This is one of the handful of classic Shakespearean films; it ranks lower than the Olivier Henry V, but only because of the substance, not the direction. With a charged, witty camera, Zeffirelli has managed to make the play alive and wholly contemporary without having had to transfer the action to a modern setting. Romeo and Juliet appear afresh as two incredibly articulate but believably, agonized teen-agers whose turf happens to be Quattrocento Verona. Too young to buck the Establishment-the Italian city-state with its machinery of epic feuds and rituals-they are finally undone...