Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo which will be posted on House bulletin boards this week, Spence has announced that upperclassmen will be able to file forms requesting transfers to individual house offices by October 9. Applicants will be informed two weeks later if a transfer is possible...
...occasion of the exchange is the opening of school in Chicago and an attempt to bus about 900 students from overcrowded black schools to under-crowded white ones. An estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are bused into a dozen schools in the section. When rumors spread that police might develop "blue flu" that day-calling in sick-so that they would not have to protect black children, Jackson hinted that black men might have to ride the buses carrying the transfers...
...There have been all sorts of negotiations-on battleships, on railroad bridges, everywhere. We have followed the Organization of African Unity [O.A.U.] Manifesto on Southern Africa, which says that we must do everything possible to negotiate for a transfer of power from the minority to the majority, and only when this fails should we decide to fight. But everything has failed, all due to the intransigence of Smith. Up to about a year ago, we thought there was a possibility of change. Then we realized that this man was just playing with words. So we have taken up arms...
Opponents of the Long Beach plan, including California Governor Jerry Brown, say the pipeline that Sohio wants to use is needed to bring in natural gas from Mexico. They also protest that the use of Long Beach as a transfer terminal for Alaskan oil would add to the already bad air and water pollution problem in the Los Angeles basin. Although no refining will take place in the area, critics of the Long Beach plan say that just shipping the oil through there will add to pollution: tankers continually emit fumes, sometimes spill oil, and will inevitably have accidents...
...them would-be doctors. Rejected by the 116 highly selective U.S. medical schools, which accepted only 15,000 applicants last year out of about 40,000. these Americans have been converging on Italy in hopes of doing well enough during the required six-year Italian stint to transfer to a school back home. "We would all have preferred to go to an American medical school," admits Steve Husecki, 26. a graduate of Indiana University now studying at Rome University. "It's a long way to come, and you have to learn another language and cope with another culture...