Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Accepted McFarlane's suggestion in April 1985 that the President telephone Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova to ask him to intervene with Honduran military officials who were holding up the transfer of military supplies to the contras. Reagan made the call, and the ammunition reached the rebels...
...heart of Moscow's newfound flexibility is Gorbachev's need to transfer scarce resources from the military to the civilian economy if he is to improve living conditions at home. By paring the military, Gorbachev aims to free not only investment resources but human resources as well. With public pressure building to reduce or even abandon the Soviet Union's unpopular conscription, Gorbachev said last October that the length of military service may be shortened. Presumably, for each good soldier lost, Moscow hopes to gain a good worker...
...geneticist is currently planning to transfer genes to human germ cells. Even though mankind has been playing God since biblical times, rearranging the germ lines of crops and farm animals to suit human needs, researchers do not advocate extending such genetic tinkering to people. But medical scientists have an obligation to protect humanity against disease and pestilence. Once it becomes possible to eradicate a gene that causes a fatal disorder, and thus keep it from passing to future generations, it will be criminal not to do so. As director of the Human Genome Project, James Watson contends that the research...
MBTA Project Manager Peter C. Calcaterra said in an interview last week that an additional subway line would serve two purposes, It would relieve congestion at peak hours at the four transfer points in Boston, and it would extend service to people in other parts of Cambridge, Boston and the suburbs...
...plot was an audacious one. To create the pool of crooked money, PASOK leaders had for three years ordered state-managed corporations such as the Post Office, the Organization of Urban Transportation and the State Pharmaceutical Co. to transfer large bank deposits -- the country's money, in effect -- out of the big national banks into the Bank of Crete, then the / smallest private bank in the country. There, Koskotas says, he arranged for the government deposits to draw an exceptionally low rate of interest, only 2% or 3%. Bank savings accounts in Greece routinely draw 15% interest. The excess interest...