Word: transferals
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...most divisive issues that will face the country, observed noted panelist Barbara McDougall, Secretary of State for External Affairs, concerns the claims and rights of Canada's 1.5 million indigenous people. They have made important gains in recent years, including the agreement a year ago to transfer 772,000 sq. mi. from the Northwest Territories to 17,500 native Inuit (Eskimo) people in the self-governing region of Nunavut. The latest rejection of constitutional reform cost indigenous people recognition of the "inherent right to self-government" that would have been theirs under the deal. Nonetheless, McDougall noted, they retain rights...
Defense fund members alleged that Inspectional Services Commissioner Joseph Cellucci's transfer of TCBY's special fast food permit to Carvalho was in violation of city zoning ordinances...
...Councillor Alice K. Wolf said she is concerned about the permit transfer and submitted an order at Monday's council meeting asking the city to investigate the matter...
...truth, the De Klerk government has done precious little to pave the way for meaningful discussions to occur concerning the transfer of power. Modern day South Africa represents a dire portrait of a doomed government desperately clinging to the slimmest hope of staying in office...
...Guantanamo naval base in Cuba, known to servicemen as Gitmo, a private is dead -- the result of harassment by two members of his platoon. The victim was a screw-up who compounded his sins by stepping outside the chain of command to report a rules infraction and seek a transfer. A "Code Red" -- informal disciplinary action by his barracksmates -- is suspected. But are the offenders wholly culpable? Or did they act under orders (or tacit encouragement) from superior officers...