31.   The issue of whether to transfer these assets had been a point of contention among the partners since January.

32.   The issue has arisen once before, when New Hampshire tried to stop a bankrupt utility from transferring its assets.

33.   The party received the money in early July, and two months later, Gov. George Pataki announced that the state was transferring the assets to the Robert Plan.

34.   Their assets will be transferred to a government agency for resale to private investors, much the way Resolution Trust Corp. worked in the United States.

35.   There is no single right way to transfer assets to the next generation.

36.   They, too, have been hearing increasingly about living trusts as a possible way to transfer assets to heirs without losing too much to expenses or estate taxes.

37.   To be sure, many older people choose not to transfer their assets.

38.   Under a separate trustee fund, the central bank will transfer the assets of troubled institutions, including accounts and deposits, to healthier banks.

39.   Under postwar agreements, countries that first received stolen assets from Nazi Germany were financially responsible for their return, not those to whom the assets were later transferred.

40.   Transferring a few assets at a time may help.