Word: transferals
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...only part of the college housing policy that must remain in place is the ability to transfer. Complete randomization could easily be instituted, as long as those who loath their living conditions intensely would be allowed to move...
Most students who are relegated to the Quad or the Leverett towers do get used to it eventually, or find that the marginal effort required to transfer is not justifiable. Moreover, students who stick with their assigned house still would have the benefit of living with their hand-picked rooming groups...
...East Wing hand-off was, if anything, more graceful than the transfer of power in the West Wing. Barbara Bush is intent on turning over the White House in get-back-the-security-deposit condition. After embracing the new tenant, Mrs. Bush pointed out the idiosyncrasies of the property, including the press corps that comes free with the four-year lease. "Avoid this crowd like the plague," she said. "And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you." Replied Mrs. Clinton: "I know that feeling already...
Clinton's intention is to clamp down on non-U.S. companies that have been illegally shifting their profits abroad. Some companies do this by inflating their transfer prices, which are the amounts they charge their American subsidiaries for goods and services. This scheme boosts the profits of the parent companies back home and reduces the taxable earnings of the domestic affiliates. Clinton's advisers, who extrapolated their numbers from a study by a House Ways and Means subcommittee, are confident that they can generate enormous new revenues by stopping or penalizing those practices...
HIGH ON THE LIST OF GAMES MULTINATIONAL CORporations can play is so-called transfer pricing, or the assigning of arbitrary values to cross-border shipments of parts and materials to foreign subsidiaries depending on how they affect the bottom line. The IRS in Washington has long charged that many Japanese firms doing business in the U.S. artificially inflate the value of Stateside deliveries to reduce the profits -- hence the taxes -- of their American subsidiaries. Now one of Japan's largest consumer-electronics manufacturers, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has agreed to a new pricing method designed to head off questions through...