Word: transferals
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...lived long enough to be honored for large victories and to have suffered from their own triumphant revolution. Aging revolutionaries who have recaptured power, they seem to want, most of them, to give China back to the ideals of the original revolution. They are struggling to avoid such a transfer of power as Mao, in his senile dementia, tried to mastermind from the palace court. They meet, usually, in the old Zhongnanhai imperial grounds, sometimes in the Great Hall of the People, sometimes in places unspecified...
...Transfer of power is particularly dangerous in China, where traditionally it went hand in hand with humiliations and killing. The pattern was quite simple. Warriors conquered power, then found it would not function without scholar-bureaucrats, "mandarins." The aging warrior-leaders of the Standing Committee know they too must create a mandarinate. A few years ago, thinkers and scholars were "stinkers"; today, they are desperately needed. But can the old men shift power to them without upheaval...
...transfer of power is now going on as far down as the six-man oligarchy of Peking can reach. But it is so delicate that their government tiptoes as if through a minefield. To talk about this process, I called on Huan Xiang, a vice president of the Academy of Social Sciences in Peking. Huan too had been humiliated, purged and rusticated. After the Gang of Four was wiped out, he came back to Peking. The old soldiers knew that matters had gone wrong ?but only scholars could say how and why. So they called in the scholars, Huan...
Coach Frank McLaughlin said that restricting varsity basketball to upperclassmen would limit the pressure freshmen are exposed to in the first year and would reduce the number of first-year athletes who transfer or leave major colleges...
...minute later, Lanzillo slid a pass to Catliffe, breaking into the penalty box on the left. The transfer from the University of British Columbia took the ball past two defenders and hit a curling drive past Leahy...