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...transfer of power ended more than 300 years of British colonial rule on the North American mainland, dating from 1607, when the first permanent English settlement was founded at Jamestown, Va. On hand for the festivities in Belize were Queen Elizabeth IPs personal emissary, Prince Michael of Kent, who turned over the reins of government to Prime Minister George Price and the new Governor General, Dr. Minita Gordon...
...industry executives were skeptical about Acker's ability to transfer his Air Florida tactics to Pan Am. Most doubted that Air Florida's chairman, Eli Timoner, who originally hired Acker to run the airline, would let his former colleague get away with it. Said Timoner: "No one beats Air Florida at its own game." True to that boast, the airline posted $69 New York-Florida fares, undercutting both Eastern...
Citibank did not trade the portfolio of stocks heavily on a day-to-day basis, which upset Sheik Salem Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Kuwait's director of U.S. investments. "If you do not do it our way," he wrote to the bank in December, "we'll transfer the funds. There are lots of good banks who want a chance to help us." The Kuwaiti government became more disturbed with Citibank when some confidential memos and the lists of its holdings were leaked to Financial Writer Dan Dorfman. In retaliation, Kuwait last month transferred the $4 billion stock...
...hard time for purists, especially traditional Freudians who believe that the psychoanalyst should keep a chilly distance. Free association and the transfer of buried memories to the doctor-patient relationship, they believe, work better in an uncongenial atmosphere. This is not a popular notion especially at a time when people fear being stuffy if they do not establish an immediate first-name relationship with their muggers. Says Aaron Green, the pseudonymous New York analyst whose good-natured fatalism forms the tough core of Malcolm's book: "No one likes to hurt people-to cause them pain, to stand silently...
...later, Monica Vitti, whom Antonioni had made a star with L 'Avventura, would call on her old mentor to collaborate on the project for RAI, the Italian television network. But Antonioni saw no challenge in restaging the play. Instead, he would shoot the production on videotape, and then transfer it to film-and, in the process, transform the story into a meditation on the incestuous links among the performing arts...