Word: transferals
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...have unrealistic expectations of technology, as if it were a magic carpet that would allow primitive societies to skip the Industrial Revolution and go straight to the environmentally friendly 21st century. But after weeks of debate, negotiators were not able to agree on whether what they wanted was technology "transfer" or technology "cooperation," never mind how to achieve them...
...against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer tax revenue back to the cities. And even if the new suburban majority could be persuaded to agree to massive urban aid, the damage wrought by the shift of wealth and jobs to the suburbs might be too much for mere social programs to remedy...
...After peace is restored," Bush said, "we must then turn again to the underlying causes of such tragic events." Given the G.O.P.'S ideology and its sources of political support, it is unrealistic to expect the President to direct a mass transfer of resources toward the economic inequality that plagues America's minorities. But there is a good deal else that can be done, and Bush should begin listening to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the only Administration player who has thought seriously about urban problems. Kemp's proposals to turn over public-housing units to tenants...
Inwood, a transfer from Yale, felt that the decision was unwarranted. she defended herself saying that the board's former president felt the decision was too harsh. Reproducing Georgia Inwood's first endeavor on campus and she criticizes the board for handing down such a stringent decision...
...glimpse of the future, look at Mississippi. Three of the state's four clinics are clustered around the capital and largest city, Jackson. But their survival is threatened by a new law that would require clinics to have advance transfer agreements with hospitals to care for patients who may suffer complications -- a provision designed to capitalize on the resistance among many hospitals to associate themselves with anything as controversial as abortion...