Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world at large, China's Hua Kuo-feng, a moderate, aborted a prospective coup by radicals and succeeded Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whose death at 82 posed the classic problem of power transfer in a totalitarian nation. In the Middle East, Syrian President Hafez Assad gained new stature by forcibly bringing to a halt the civil war in Lebanon involving rightist Christians, left-wing Moslems, and their Palestinian allies. Seriously set back, and at least temporarily under control of Arab moderates, the Palestine Liberation Organization seemed more amenable to making compromises at a new Geneva conference...
There remains bitter opposition, but the year saw the beginning of the end of white dominance in southern Africa. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, 57, finally bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle to transfer power in two years to the blacks, who outnumber the whites 22 to 1. Smith would never have given in without the pressure of Henry
...Hill?that was granted to every President from Truman to Nixon. Says Carter: "I don't desire to abolish or create entire departments or to eliminate any members of the Cabinet without going to Congress for permanent legislation. But I've got to have the authority to transfer programs back and forth and to consolidate the control of programs under one entity in the Government." He is already considering plans?which he can carry out without
Orienteering is a survival skill with military origins. It made the transfer to civilian sport shortly after World War I when a former Swedish army officer set up orienteering programs for schoolchildren. Students who had balked at conventional fitness programs poured into the forests to race from checkpoint to checkpoint, studying maps, steadying compasses and racing against the orienteer's chief adversary, the clock...
...Point schools finally reopened last week, and in the high school cafeteria a hopeful banner said: MACARONI AND CHEESE, WE WANT TO GRADUATE PLEASE. But after almost two months only about half the senior class returned to classes and only about two-thirds of the younger students. Some had transferred to nearby districts (average tuition: $160 per month) and could not transfer back. Others had taken jobs or simply dropped out. In addition, 15 teachers had resigned and gone job hunting...