Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Butler used to be director of Personnel. Now he is director of Personnel Planning, a different kettle of fish altogether. Hall explained the transfer this way: "John is a competent professional who was in the job so darn long that he just got crowded in by all the trees. We said, Hey John, you deserve and have earned the right to step aside and catch your breath a bit. Let us take over some of the things you've been handling, and when you're ready, why, you can come back...
...almost halving the current 4,400 inmate population and nearly doubling the 383 guards at the state's four largest institutions. The judge ordered that every inmate be given "a meaningful job," a chance to take "basic educational programs," and an annual classification check to determine whether transfer to "a more appropriate facility"-perhaps a mental hospital-is necessary...
...Federal Government responded to the campaign by ordering the schools desegregated, and Lola Williams, the county's white school superintendent, issued a statement that any student in the system could attend the school of his choice. But when 88 blacks said they wanted to transfer to Alexander Stephens, Williams and the all-white school board simply closed the school. They explained that all of Stephens' pupils had asked to transfer to schools in adjoining counties. Taliaferro school buses were then used to carry the whites to schools outside the county. When black students tried to board the buses...
...judge panel placed the Taliaferro school system in federal receivership under Claude Purcell, the state superintendent of schools. To give blacks as wide a choice of schools as whites, Purcell demanded that schools in other Georgia counties take any of Taliaferro's blacks who applied; 42 blacks did transfer out and were accepted peacefully. Purcell also ordered the reopening and desegregation of Alexander Stephens. This done, the court took the school system out of receivership and gave control back to Superintendent Williams...
...softening U.S. attitude is prompted by several factors. Early predictions that a massive transfer of wealth to the oil-producing states would cripple the industrial world's financial and production systems have proved unfounded. Most of the newly rich producers have become big spenders, and are creating lush export markets for U.S., European and Japanese goods...