Word: transferring
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...council. All will still be appointed by the President, and Congress will continue to appropriate the funds for Washington's budget-even though 80% of the city's current expenses are paid for by local taxes. Unlike the present government, the new administration will be permitted to transfer funds from one city agency to another without applying to Congress for approval...
...dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia. He has no regrets: Liscome Bay was later torpedoed off the Gilbert Islands, and went down with most of her crew...
...school administration determined in 1964 to integrate staffs without taking teacher preference into consideration. By 1966, the Federation of Teachers decided it could negotiate a better plan by bringing "the experience and aspirations of teachers to the bargaining table." The cooperative agreement included provisions to encourage voluntary teachers transfer and to recruit new teachers for schools that needed them...
...Long Beach, Calif., which will transform her into a hotel and maritime museum. Long Beach's bid of $3.4 million was about $1,000,000 better than any other, said Cunard Lines Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece, and "insures that her character will be preserved." Rejected suitors may now transfer their pitch to Mary's younger sister Elizabeth, 27, who will be looking for a quiet home next year...
Prudence and thrift took another beating in the tax courts last week. In New York, the state's transfer tax department suppressed a smile as it revealed that Howard Gould, sobersided last son of Railroad Baron Jay Gould, left an estate of $64 million when he died at 88 in 1959. Of this bounteous legacy, about $37 million will go straight to Uncle Sam and another $13 million to the state, leaving 26 legatees to scramble for the $14 million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died...