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...push to invigorate the leadership by promoting somewhat younger, discipline-minded technocrats serves the interests of Andropov supporters in the military and security services, even if such key backers as Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75, and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 74, may want to postpone the transfer of power to a younger generation. But Andropov's evident frailty could prevent the kind of firm leadership that would keep his country from drifting aimlessly both at home and abroad. Said a U.S. Kremlin watcher: "You cannot run Russia from your bed, and the Soviet leaders, sooner or later, have...
Maybe I could transfer into McGill...
...tale of a boy who lost his father at age two and at 19 found a magnificent replacement: George Washington, who dominated the American Revolution and its young visitor. After helping the U.S. gain independence, Lafayette spent a lifetime trying to be the French Washington, attempting to transfer the American ideal of freedom to his benighted land and to act with the principled courage of his mentor. Pretending to be great, the marquis eventually learned to behave nobly. In the end, Lafayette was not France's gift to America, but America's gift to France...
Pickens provoked the confrontation in October, when he and a band of partners announced that they were buying Gulf stock. So far, they have spent $850 million for more than 12% of the company's shares. Pickens planned to lead a drive that would force Gulf to transfer ownership of some 50% of the company's U.S. oil and gas reserves to the shareholders in the form of a royalty trust. Such a move, he contended, would boost the market value of Gulf shares, now priced at about $45, by as much...
City Manager Robert W. Healy asked the nine-member body for a $800,000 transfer from the School Department's debt stabilization fund to its operating budget. The money will prevent massive layoffs in January, when projections indicated the department would run out of funds...