Word: transfering
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...order of preference to prevent a majority from controlling all the seats. The votes are tabulated according to number one choices, with the result that any sizeable group may elect a representative. An organized slate of candidates is a good strategy under P.R. because the slate can pick up transfer votes--lower choices of a voter whose first choice candidate has already been elected or eliminated...
Last week the Carter Administration took a long overdue step to deal with the nuclear waste from generating plants and proposed that the Government take over responsibility for storing the spent fuel. The companies would transfer the material to the Government on a voluntary basis and pay a storage fee. How many storage sites will be needed and where they will be located has not yet been decided. So far, the industry's inventory of spent fuel is 2,500 metric tons, and by 1985, when some 75 new nuclear generators will have come into production, the backldog will...
...restrictions against imports of steel, textiles, shoes, TV sets and dozens of other items. At the end of September, Zenith Radio Corp., the largest U.S. maker of TV sets, announced that it would lay off 5,600 American employees within the next year, because of competition from imports, and transfer much of its color-set production to Taiwan and Mexico. Responding to complaints from U.S. steelmakers, the Treasury Department accused five Japanese firms of "dumping" steel plate-that is, selling the product below cost in the U.S. The companies must post $50 million in bonds to cover the cost...
House offices sent a total of 41 acceptances to 128 transfer applicants yesterday, marking the implementation of a decentralized housing policy...
...sophomore who sent Mrs. Marshall a bunch of roses explained the incident to me as I wrote it. In addition, I meant the story as an illustration of how frequently personalities became involved in the transfer process, a situation many transfer applicants have testified...