Word: transferals
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These domestic sources of "pork barrel" are small, though, compared to the huge dollar value of defense contracts. Since much of the current federal budget deals with the so-called "transfer payments," the Pentagon purchases by far the largest amount of goods and services of any government agency. Just to indicate the importance of last week's engine controversy, United Technologies received 47 percent of its profit last year from engine and spare part sales, the majority of which were to the military. Sen. Dodd estimated the cost to the taxpayer of this supplier change at $2 to $3 billion...
...February 28 the city will hold a public hearing on the possible transfer of the Ale House's liquor license to Harvard. Steiner said the University had no specific plans to use the permit, but added that it is possible the building might be leased as a restaurant...
...academic advising, graduate references and the like, the co-op residents use the tutors of their original Houses, or, in the case of transfer students, the tutors of the co-op's affiliate House. For example, a student who moved from Winthrop House to the co-ops would be assigned to the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, and a transfer student who moved directly to the co-ops would use the tutors of that co-op's affiliate House...
...than part with her, we will emigrate and I will quit politics." Despite his dogged stand, the Finance Minister is on fairly safe ground: he may be in the doghouse, but as a member of parliament he cannot be jailed. Before things become irretrieverable, one wag suggests, why not transfer Gudmundsson to Iceland's United Nations delegation in New York? New Yorkers, after all, are not only accustomed to putting on the dog, but putting up with it as well...
...said other items on the agenda included questions of how to insure academic opportunities and relationships between academic scientific communities and private industry. In recent years Bok has had to deal repeatedly with the issue of technology transfer--a University's right to a professor's research--as various companies approached Harvard with offers to sponsor research in exchange for exclusive access to major discoveries...