Word: defer
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...antics of everyday Washington, and the Administration's social Darwinism emerges: Defense Department officials order a new bomb that "will kill only those people who do not carry a credit card"; the President announces a policy called "The New Deferralism": "that we, at the federal level, defer all responsibility for social problems for a period of eight years"; and Reagan justifies high interest rates, explaining: "We just recently received word of a man who got a loan to buy a new automobile many years ago when interest rates were low. Well, that man used that automobile as a getaway...
HARVARD sets great store by its own traditions, but there are some other traditions to which it should defer. That is the lesson the University should take away from its current conflict with several Jewish student groups, who are urging Harvard to reschedule Commencement so it does not fall on the second day of the Jewish holiday Shavuos...
Mobilization members may counter that there is no national consensus on nuclear arms, that no research on nuclear weapons--even that work that would make them safer, or better able to defer a Soviet attack--is good. Voters who disagree with the Reagan Administration's arms policies should realize that by supporting the referendum they are going beyond simply registering that dissatisfaction. Six leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president have endorsed a nuclear freeze, but the Nuclear Free Cambridge proposal gives up hope for national change. Supporters are giving up on arms control agreements. They are saying that...
During the week, Continental Chairman Frank Lorenzo, looking weary and discouraged, shuttled between Denver and Houston for what proved to be unproductive talks with striking pilots. A crew shortage forced Continental to defer its plans to add ten flights to the 158 remaining on its schedule. Pilots who had crossed picket lines were already flying at the rate of 83 hours a month, well under the federally mandated limit of 100 but still some 28 hours more than Continental's pre-strike average. In view of the turmoil throughout the industry, the Federal Aviation Administration stepped up its safety...
...journalists were pursuing strategies that grew out of a similar conference at Talloires two years ago. With the help of Western governments-led by the U.S., which threatened to withdraw its 25% share of UNESCO's budget-the 1981 conferees succeeded in getting the U.N. agency to defer major antipress proposals. Diplomats predicted that the second Talloires session would reinforce the journalists' counterattack: it drew 83 participants, vs. 63 in 1981, and included news organizations from the U.S., most of Western Europe, Japan and countries as diverse as Finland, India and Peru. Said Jean Gerard, U.S. Ambassador...