Word: defer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Duke plan, which would allow a limited number of students to defer payment on up to $1500 of their tuition and repay the university over a period of 30 years, follows in outline the Yale proposal...
Rising construction costs have forced some businessmen to defer plans for new factories or to shift production abroad, depriving Americans of jobs. Voters, fed up with local tax increases, are rejecting bond issues for schools and other public projects with increasing frequency. Labor leaders themselves are worried. Says Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers: "There is no question that the wage increases in construction are excessive...
...Yale Plan would allow students to defer the cost of their education over a 35-year period after graduation. Students electing to borrow under the plan would pay back four per cent of their future pre-tax income for 35 years or until their class debt is paid...
Gordian Knot. The net effect of most of the senatorial intransigence was to defer final decisions on many issues. The buck-passing means that some battles will have to be fought again. Thus the Senate refused to give the President his Family Assistance Plan, new restrictions on imports of foreign goods or funds for continued development of the supersonic transport aircraft. Even a much-needed increase in Social Security benefits to help senior citizens keep up with the cost of living became a casualty of the deadline pressures...
...fluid nature of the entire portfolio should be emphasized. A student would be allowed to change letter grades to passes any time after receiving the grades. And he would be permitted, indeed encouraged, to defer including samples of his work in the portfolio until he decided what constituted his best efforts. (Unlimited substitutions would wreak havoc on the Registrar's office...