Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...total Government control. The trouble with this idea is that it invites a return of the abuses and inefficiencies of the Post Office, which was inflexibly bureaucratic and ridden with politics. The virtue of a Government corporation is that it can make appointments on the basis of merit alone, transfer funds as it thinks best without bureaucratic controls, and plan ahead and borrow money for modernization...
Political assassination was frequent in highly civilized 8th century Spain. Most murders were committed by rival factions. So, too, in the Ottoman Empire, where assassination was used for political consolidation and transfer of power. When Sultan Murad III died in 1595 leaving 20 sons out of 47 surviving children, Murad's successor, Mohammed III, eliminated his competition by murdering his 19 brothers...
...partial surrender of home rule, the money spigot has been turned on again. Big Mac is empowered to convert up to $3 billion in short-term debt into long-term bonds. The new bonds will be backed by some $1 billion in revenues from the sales tax and stock-transfer tax. This arrangement is expected to reassure investors who were frightened away from city offerings...
...suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival, but the public was cool to Choreographer Frederick Ashton's jarring transfer of the mythic lovers from the 3rd century B.C. to modern Greece. This spring, for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, John Taras confected an ill-favored mod-squad version that will probably be consigned to the choreographic trash can. George Balanchine flatly called the Ravel score, with...
...Bitter Lakes, they met the first northbound convoy in eight years-two Iranian destroyers along with cargo ships from Japan, Italy, Pakistan and the Sudan. Israel may suffer economically from the reopening of the Suez since, among other things, it will cut heavily into a profitable overland transfer route, from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Ashkelon, that Israel developed after the 1967 canal closing. Nonetheless Foreign Minister Yigal Allon conveyed "heartfelt and most sincere wishes to Egypt that the canal will indeed bear the hoped-for economic fruit." In his speech to the Knesset, Allon emphasized, however, that...