Word: transferals
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...stage, even if it did take advantage of American military might. It is not the thousands of warheads dotting the Eastern hemisphere and pointing at U.S. cities that are the main threat to our status as a superpower, but our increasing dependency on foreign powers. There has been a transfer of wealth from the U.S. to Japan that could not have been imagined 25 years ago, as America fell from being the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor...
Taylor had worked for First Chicago for eight years, and was employed in its wire-transfer section, which dispatches multimillion-dollar sums around the world via computers and phone lines. The bank's biggest customers routinely call this department to transfer funds, often paying money directly into suppliers' accounts. As at most banks, transfers require that a First Chicago employee call back another executive at the customer's offices to reconfirm the order, using various code numbers. All such calls are automatically taped. Taylor had access to the codes and knew the names of the appropriate executives at various corporations...
...gang member posing as a Merrill Lynch executive called First Chicago to arrange the transfer of $24 million to the account of "Lord Investments" in Vienna's Creditanstalt bank. He first heard a taped message: "This is First Chicago transfer operations. Your transaction is being recorded." Unfazed, the caller placed the order with one of Taylor's unwitting co-workers. Taylor pretended to phone another Merrill Lynch official for backup confirmation. He really called the Chicago home of Bailey, who gave an authentic-sounding "approval" as the tape rolled. The $24 million was promptly wired to New York's Citibank...
...outburst was inspired by the transfer of Port Vila land leases from a semi-government authority to a government department. Members of Vanuatu's three Melanesian tribes, which consider themselves the traditional owners of the land, opposed government control of the leases...
...fraternity has attracted only one Harvard undergraduate and a transfer student from Brown who pledged the fraternity there but has not been initiated, Coukos says. The group hopes to attract further interest at its first meeting next week...