Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article concerning the Chowchilla, Calif., kidnaping case, you state that after unearthing the tractor-trailer in which the children and bus driver were held captive, "investigators quickly traced it to the Palo Alto Transfer & Storage Co." How much tracing was necessary considering the fact that in bold letters across the front of the truck was written PALO ALTO TRANSFER AND STORAGE COMPANY...
...black, one white and three of mixed race-settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for Namibian independence. A multiracial interim government-probably to be headed by Clemens Kapuuo, a Herero tribal chief, and Dirk Mudge, a white rancher-will draft a constitution, organize elections and oversee the transfer of power. The non-white majority at the conference had pressed for independence by next June 30, but in the end agreed to wait an extra 18 months in return for the kind of one-man, one-vote system it wanted. SWAPO predictably denounced the agreement, but from...
...dollar terms, the renewed energy binge will be costly. The bill for oil imports will rise from last year's $27 billion to $35 billion this year. The U.S. economy will pay for this increase partly in a transfer of assets to OPEC countries and partly in a loss of some of its consumer spending power needed to continue the recovery (see following story...
Unless surprise negotiations begin before the fall rainy season, Rhodesia appears doomed for a racial armageddon. Unlike other Brithish colonies, Rhodesia refuses to allow a peaceful transfer of power to the black majority...
...banking field abroad. Loan standards have been tightened. The Chase has closed six of its 265 branches because they were unprofitable, and as many as 30 more might be shut down. In an effort to trim its paperwork problems, the bank has sold off its payroll processing and stock-transfer departments to smaller data-processing firms. As a result, in a move that one veteran officer describes as "not in the Chase tradition," 300 employees will be fired...