Word: defer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been little partisan dissension among the staff, mostly because of the cooperative example set by Ervin and Baker. Though staff members are occasionally disappointed with the way a witness is questioned, and often make suggestions of their own, they all must finally defer to the Senators. Staff work is demanding. Senior lawyers interview prospective witnesses, and junior lawyers help out with such questioning when they are not doubling as investigators. Dash, Thompson and Deputy Counsel Rufus Edmisten, who doubles as Ervin's right-hand man on the staff, spend little time on the Washington social scene...
...said the admissions committee did not offer the option to the entire class in order to insure against the possibility that everyone might choose to defer admission...
...School admissions office dropped its one-year experiment this Fall which allowed a randomly-selected group of students to defer matriculation for up to three years...
Sixty per cent of the group chosen decided to enter in the year of their admission while about 40 per cent decided to defer entrance, Simpson said. However, he said that the total number of deferred students amounted to less than 10 percent of all students admitted that year...
Although the admissions committee will no longer promise a deferring student that he will be readmitted, it has in the past turned down very few students who have reapplied for admission after their leaves of absence, Simpson said. He said that "as the present policy stands, students who wish to defer are encouraged...