Word: transferals
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...bellicose outcries are not meant seriously, then they are all the more inappropriate. Why flex muscles needlessly? Why stage noisy shows and transfer the methods of domestic political struggles to the relations between two nuclear powers? In them the language of strength is useless and dangerous. There is still time before the summit meeting, and quite a lot can be done for it to be constructive and useful. But this, as you will understand, depends on both sides...
...time since, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what was wrong that first year. Was it me, Harvard, or college in general? When I applied to transfer to Princeton, I blamed it all on Harvard. I revived the myth that many love to tell--that Harvard undergraduate education is poor and that the professors here don't care about the students. I always knew that was a lie, but I had to blame it on something. In fact, the undergraduate education here is terrific, and as some of my friends could tell you, I know the administration...
From his home in Mill Valley, Calif., anytime between 6 a.m. and midnight, Attorney Gregory Dyer can use his personal computer to check his balance at BankAmerica and transfer money between accounts. With his lap computer, Larry Lape, a business executive, does much of his personal banking from hotel rooms ; hundreds of miles away from his hometown Huntington National Bank in Columbus. Without leaving his home, Page Stodder, a Cleveland investment banker, can use his PC to pay bills from 82 different companies. Says Stodder: "It's faster than writing checks, putting stamps on envelopes and taking them...
...partnership will bring immediate benefits to both companies. IBM stands to gain experience in telecommunications and get rid of the troubled SBS. For | MCI, a transfer of IBM's long-distance business could bring as much as $100 million a year in revenue. In addition, MCI will immediately gain more than 200,000 customers from SBS, representing about $35 million in monthly revenues and 1% of the long-distance market...
...Peres not to free the detainees under any circumstances. Jerusalem is also enmeshed in a controversy over the legality under which the Shi'ite detainees were brought to Israel. Many nations, including the U.S., contend that Israel violated Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits "forcible transfers . . . from occupied territory" of civilian prisoners. Israeli officials retort that the same article allows for the transfer of civilians outside occupied zones if "for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement." Whether or not Jerusalem can make a case for meeting that condition, the convention stipulates that detainees...