Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a package small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebook-size machine has a standard keyboard and an easy-to-read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy to sell. It is the Mercedes of computers," said Jim Johnston, a salesman at Atlanta's PC Mart...
...core, the A.N.C. position is equally nonnegotiable, calling for a swift transfer of state power from whites to blacks. The exiled organization stands unwaveringly for one-person, one-vote majority rule in a unitary state. Such an arrangement is "unfair" and unacceptable, says De Klerk. "Afrikaners won't agree to that until they are militarily defeated," says a senior diplomat in Pretoria, "and the balance of power in the country right now does not favor revolution...
Afanasyev was dismissed under the guise of requesting a "transfer to scientific work." Named as his replacement was Ivan Frolov, 60, by no coincidence a close Gorbachev ally. Frolov has held academic and journalistic posts, in 1986 and 1987 as editor of the ideological journal Kommunist. His stewardship of that once stiffly orthodox publication was marked by the introduction of new voices, including some that have been prominent in the perestroika movement...
Melrose enrolled in the University of North Dakota in the fall of 1984, but was injured before the regular hockey season and did not play his first year. He withdrew from North Dakota the following November and was accepted by Harvard as a transfer student that spring, but deferred matriculation a year in order to try out for the Olympic team. He then enrolled in Harvard in the fall of 1987 and has enjoyed two successful seasons with the Crimson...
Controversy centers on the possibility that security guards now posted at the gates, members of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 254, will be replaced by parking "monitors" from the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). It remains unclear why the transfer would take place...