Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard graduates default because most are employed and earning enough money to repay their loans as well as meet the daily cost of living, Homer said...
Many people see an advantage in having a President of the same party as the congressional majority. But Carter's dealings with Congress may be difficult-after the traditional honeymoon. He strongly criticizes "dormant" Presidents like Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford for giving-by default -too large a policy role to Congress. Nonetheless, Congress is not likely to stop trying to influence strongly foreign policy or to change the Administration's proposed budgets. To get some of his programs through Congress, particularly those that will offend special-interest groups-many Government employees, for example, will not like...
Essentially, the Yankees won by default this year. The Red Sox and the Orioles were plagued with contract problems and never really got started. And the Royals might have won except for a bad call in the ninth inning of the last game. But for the sake of purity, the Reds must stem the unpure tide from the Bronx. I predict that the series will go no less than four game, nor more than seven. And the Reds are going to win most of the games...
Meanwhile, inclement weather interfered with the efforts of Ivy League stepchildren Columbia and Princeton last weekend, producing a fumble-filled contest that the Tigers seemed almost to win by default...
...southern Africa: it brought Soviet power and influence, partly in the form of Cuban troops, into the area in strength. Inevitably, Washington became concerned about the region's vulnerability to foreign influence. Kissinger wanted to prevent the whole of southern Africa from falling ? eventually, and almost by default ? into the Soviet orbit; he wanted to head off what appeared to be inevitable race war; and he wanted to create circumstances in which moderate black regimes would have a chance to endure. With these motives in mind, he met John Vorster twice this summer in Europe...