Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty administrators and the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions committees decided just before Thanksgiving vacation to abolish fixed quotas for the number of transfer students admitted to the colleges...
Ford's second veto was of a bill to extend the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for one year, provide $851 million for programs to aid the handicapped and transfer the administration of the act's services to the office of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Here the margins were even more impressive. By 398 to 7 in the House and 90 to 1 in the Senate, Congress upheld the measure over the President's objection...
...broader goal, chapter 31 of the General Laws should be amended to transfer the responsibility of investigating police misconduct complaints from the police department and city manager to a civilian police commission. Citizens should not tolerate a police department that is incapable of thorough internal investigation and impartial disciplinary hearings. Should Cambridge police mishandle the hearings on the Anderson case, the public should press city and state policy makers to effect a wholesale change in the system...
FDIC'S insurance activities, as distinct from its examination responsibilities, are designed to minimize the impact of bank failure on depositors. FDIC performed that function as receiver of Franklin National Bank by arranging the transfer of all Franklin's deposit liabilities, all its offices and about half its assets to European-American Bank & Trust Company...
...course the oil-deficient but otherwise potent industrial nations would never permit themselves to become impoverished. They would first act boldly through energy sharing and saving and political and economic boycotts to stem the drain of money and transfer of power to OPEC. If the major oil consumers form some common front, they may be able to meet with OPEC and negotiate a reduction in prices. The limited first steps that the oil importers have taken in the past few weeks may lead to that concerted action. In the meantime OPEC's members might want to recall the story...