Word: transferring
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...running an FM radio station in Gloucester, Mass., spinning the records, answering the phone, writing the ads, maintaining the transmitter-all by himself. His annual earnings from the station have never topped $5,000. Last year a group of local businessmen and politicians asked the Federal Communications Commission to transfer Geller's license to them, claiming that his all-classical-music format was "not responsive to the needs of the community." They proposed to replace it with dinner music and public service programs...
However lofty that principle, it is difficult to maintain when large investments?in scholarship money, facilities, travel expenses and television revenues?are at stake. Already basketball coaches are luring transfer students to their campuses with no fear of penalty: the A.I.A.W., unlike the N.C.A.A., does not require transfer athletes to sit out a season. A 5-ft. 10-in. forward with a good fadeaway jumper can, and increasingly does, play musical colleges. Michigan Athletic Director Donald Canham watches from the sidelines and notes: "The women had a golden opportunity to establish an athletic program with the men's mistakes...
...Arizona, Hahn learns how not to communicate with a cat. "Because the aggressive posture of the cat is the locked-eye gaze," she is told, "cats will transfer this reaction to humans, and when the stranger says 'Hi!' a cat will, according to its nature, back away or make a threatening gesture or merely ignore." At Ringling Brothers Circus, Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams soothes his tigers with a friendly "Wuzza, wuzza, wuzza." "I have this feeling," he says, "the animal knows how nice I am when he hears me; it's not the words...
Trouble between father and son is not new. Back in 1972 Herbert yanked Garner Ted off the tube and sent him into exile. Insiders later reported that the son was guilty of adultery. But by 1974 Herbert announced that the returned Garner Ted was his divinely chosen successor, a transfer of power that he likened to King David's handing the reins to Solomon (I Chronicles: 28). Angry schism ensued. Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly...
...long term, the trend away from corporate nomadism may benefit the companies as much as executives and their families. For one thing, the cost of moving is huge; the average bill for a transfer is $16,000?and rising. More important, an executive who wants to stay put will probably work harder just to qualify for promotion on the spot ?rather than having to move elsewhere for advancement...