Word: defer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program is designed to attract more minority students but also to reduce the practice of accepting students conditional on two years of work experience. However, any admitted student may voluntarily defer matriculation as in the past...
Meanwhile, the Soviets have been probing for some indication that the U.S. might yet accept "the postponement option": defer deployment, if only for a few months, to give the negotiators more time. Absolutely not, says virtually every responsible American official. Postponement is tantamount to cancellation, and therefore it is not an option at all. The Soviets by now have good reason to conclude that deployment will indeed take place. Yet far from positioning themselves in a way that would allow them to compromise at the last minute in INF, they have continued to drop dark hints of a walkout...
...Congress last week acted to reduce revenue. The Senate followed the House in voting to repeal the 10% withholding tax on interest and dividends scheduled to begin July 1. The Senators voted to raise their own pay to $69,800 a year, from the present $60,662, and to defer until Dec. 31 a limit on the outside income they can earn...
...trip in Mexico City with a strong statement on Tuesday in support of the Contadora group-four Latin American countries, led by Mexico and Venezuela-that have been seeking a regional solution to the fighting. Speaking in passable Spanish, the former Florida Senator said the Reagan Administration would "defer" to the countries involved and not "impose our own agenda...
That did not please Steel, who called Jenkins' swift decision "quite, quite daft." From the outset, Steel, 45, said that he would happily defer to Jenkins as the Alliance's elder statesman. Suddenly, he found himself threatened by a young politician as ambitious and well spoken as himself. Since the Liberals won more seats (17) than the S.D.P., Steel's M.P.s are already pressing for a larger say in Alliance affairs...