Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiments will study control mechanisms in the DNA of higher-level organisms. Researchers will transfer DNA from warm-blooded animals into a strain of E-coli, bacteria they claim rarely survives outside the laboratory...
...UNCTAD agenda was exhaustive -covering such topics as the transfer of technology, international trade and the problems of landlocked developing nations-but, as expected, the crucial issue was commodities. The so-called Group of 77 (which actually includes about 110 developing countries) pressed for the creation of a $3 billion Common Fund that would attempt to stabilize world prices for various raw materials by maintaining buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp...
...developing countries obtain the postponements they had been seeking on the debts they owe to richer nations. The industrialized countries did agree, however, to join them in drawing up common guidelines to be applied to countries on the verge of bankruptcy. The rich countries also agreed to ease the transfer of technology to poorer nations as well as the trade barriers that hamper Third World exports...
...same supervision, and the same opportunity. What a student does with that opportunity is entirely up to him. Not everyone finds that he likes the job, and that's his prerogative. But to claim that he was misled or made to do things he wasn't expecting, is to transfer responsibility for not liking it from where it belongs--squarely on him--to the job itself, which is exactly the same for all 8000 students who give it a try. Each student says in Nashville, "I and I alone am responsible for my books and my money...
...most part, the white students attend for the same reasons as many of the blacks: convenience of location, low tuition, the availability of courses they want and, in some cases, relaxed admissions requirements. More than half the whites, according to a recent survey of 18 black institutions, are transfer students, and the great majority are pleased enough to recommend their new colleges to their friends...