Word: transferring
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...inevitably be used against Israel in the event of war. The Saudis have assured Washington that this is not true−and there is good reason to believe them. Ground maintenance for the F-15s would be handled mostly by American technicians. Thus it would be very difficult to transfer the F-15s to other Arab states. The Saudis also insist they have no intention of basing the planes at their Tabuk airbase, which is only 125 miles from the Israeli port of Eilat. One reason is that the Saudis do not want the planes, which cost $16 million apiece...
...biggest single expenditure in the federal budget last year, $170 billion, went not for defense or education or interest on the national debt, but for transfer payments−that is, tax money Washington takes from working Americans and gives to citizens who are retired, ill or poor. Daniel H. Brill, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, reports that transfer payments (Medicare, unemployment insurance, veterans and other federal pensions and the like) have risen from 6.5% or 7% of the national income in the early 1960s to 13% or 14% in recent years...
Social Security is the largest transfer; last year's payments were $90.4 billion. In all, reckons Economist William Lawrence of Pace University, whose definition of the payments is broader, 1977 transfer payments were equal to 69% of all federal tax receipts...
Under the new policy, the housing office should notify students about transfer decisions no later than the beginning of fall semester, although it can "make no promises," Ann B. Spence, associate dean of the College, said yesterday...
...doesn't make a difference, because I already decided to give South House a try," Don Rung '81 said. "February's probably the earliest I'd try to transfer anyway...