Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's, had not been in the White House for years: former New York Republican Senator Charles Goodell, a longtime Nixon foe; Michigan Representative Donald Riegle Jr., who deserted the G.O.P. to become a Democrat early in 1973; and Democratic Senator Philip Hart. The stage was set for the transfer of the world's most powerful political office from Richard Nixon, even then airborne over Missouri on his way to California and retirement, to Gerald Ford...
...exit and the entrance were a poignant reminder of the smoothness with which the American system can transfer the world's most powerful office from one man to another. "Mr. Vice President," Burger intoned, "are you prepared to take the oath of office as President of the United States?" "I am, sir," Ford replied. Even before the Chief Justice asked him to do so, Ford raised his right hand, placing his left on a Bible held by his wife. It was opened to the Book of Proverbs, third chapter, fifth and sixth verses, which Ford says every night...
...came with breathtaking impact: after 500 years of colonialism, the last 13 of them mired in bloody guerrilla warfare, Portugal was leaving Africa. The first, and probably the last of the world's great modern colonial empires was ending. Portugal was "now ready to begin the process of transfer of power to the inhabitants of the overseas territories recognized as ready for it-namely Guinea, Angola and Mozambique...
...garish of these is called "bogus" or "dead horse"-in which printers are allowed to set up duplicates of display ads that their papers have received ready to print. These duplicates are methodically processed-and then thrown away. The New York local also enforced contract rules forbidding employers to transfer printers from one kind of composing room task to another; thus Linotypists might sit idly while work piled up on proofreaders. Printers also clung to "manning" rules', in which the union and not management determined the number of men required by their machines...
...Herald and Detroit News (TIME, Dec. 17), the technology is dazzling. Reporters compose their stories on keyboards attached to a computer and a small video screen-a sort of electronic "page." Editors call up the finished stories on their own screens, on which they can do their editing, and transfer final versions back into the computer. From there the story is run through a cold type machine and ultimately installed on computer-controlled printing presses...