Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspire Washington to clamp down on the freewheeling markets. Already Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, plans to investigate the Chicago exchanges. Congress could decide to beef up the relatively tiny agency that oversees the Chicago markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or transfer the authority to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Figuratively speaking, at least," laments a futures broker, "there'll be police in the pits from...
Allowing Japan to buy into U.S. schools worries some American educators, who fear this would be the ultimate technology transfer. But the deals also provide vital links to Japanese business, a chance for American students and faculty to be exposed to that country's culture, and, not incidentally, a source of revenue for U.S. institutions. "I see it as an opportunity," says George Smith, assistant to the president at Warner Pacific. "There is no question that higher education will be more international in the future...
...from overheating and melting into an uncontrollable mass that can breach containment walls and release radioactivity. One way to prevent a meltdown is to make sure the fuel is always surrounded with circulating coolant -- ordinary water in most commercial reactors. To guard against mechanical failures that could interrupt the transfer of heat, most reactors employ multiple backup systems, a strategy known as "defense in depth...
Plant genetics is another option that needs to be energetically pursued. At / the University of California at Riverside, plant physiologist Anthony Hall is working on a way to make cowpeas more tolerant to heat. Other scientists are using genetic engineering to transfer genes from bacteria that act like natural insecticides. But though they have tried, scientists have not yet been able to develop farm crops that are drought resistant. Says Hall: "You can't grow plants without water...
...vote set for next week, the country and its 16 million people are on the verge of anarchy, the ethnic and factional strife having unleashed a savagery evocative of El Salvador in the early 1980s. Many Sri Lankans stake the last hope for their island country on a democratic transfer of power that will end the protracted eleven-year rule of President Junius Jayewardene. That faith, a narrow one, rests on the prospect that a new administration in the capital city of Colombo may slow the insurgents' momentum. But "even if all the guns are put away," warns Education Minister...