Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly every campaign stop, Reagan last week insisted that he had been misunderstood, and did a considerable amount of backpedaling, explaining and modifying. There would be no "dumping" of social-service functions on state and local governments, he said; instead, the transfer would be "orderly" and "phased." He argued that tax rates would be entirely up to state and local governments, since they would decide which federal programs to continue, cut back or abandon. Moreover, Reagan maintained, his scheme would provide additional tax savings for Americans by eliminating the large federal administrative costs and enabling the programs...
Another Mike Nichols film is Catch 22, an adaptation of Joseph Heller's apocalyptic novel. But how could anyone ever transfer the lunacy of Major Major Major Major, Yossarian, Colonel Cathcart and the Watergate figure of all time, Milo Minderbinder to the screen? Nichols tries, and fails. With Alan Arkin...
...arrived in Cleveland that very day to visit my boyfriend, L.S., as a friend calls him, and to confront his parents. To make commections I had had to traverse the entire airport at Detroit, and the airlines had failed to transfer my luggage. Because of the holiday, no one was working and I didn't get my luggage until January 1st was almost over. I had been wearing a new green dress to freak everyone out of their minds but the novelty was beginning to pall and I was yearning for my jeans. That evening we had a sedate family...
This plan, when coupled with the task force's suggestions to allow rising sophomores to transfer and to assure that some balance be maintained in the Houses, might succeed in bailing out the present system. But with the "no-choice" system must come the improvement of Quad facilities, including the construction of the important Observatory Hill athletic complex, and expanded shuttle bus service, as the task force outlines...
...Transfer technology and pursue research specifically suited to Fourth and Fifth World conditions. An Indian agricultural expert stresses, for instance, that his country may have less need for "miracle seeds" than for an improved oxen-driven steel hoe or an improved bullock cart...