Word: defer
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...important to find a balance between service delivery and representation of the district," Bellamy said. She added legislators too frequently choose the "service delivery" route and only defer problems to the executive branch of government...
...greatest breakthrough in pension board representation has come in a company that desperately needs the cooperation of its union. In return for permission to defer its pension-fund contribution, Chrysler consented to a union demand for a joint advisory board on pensions. Three representatives from Chrysler and three from the United Auto Workers will oversee the investment of 10 per cent of each year's net increase in pension money for "socially desirable" ends. In addition, the union can veto investments in up to five companies every year as a result of ties to South Africa...
...Human Bondage, considered Maugham's greatest work, formed the basis of his literary reputation. He describes himself "in the front rank of second-class writers"; in this novel only, perhaps, did he rise above that description. Morgan makes no attempt to judge Maugham's literary importance, preferring instead to defer to other writers like H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser, who said Maugham was "a great artist" and Of Human Bondage a work of genius. Morgan also cites critics like Malcolm Cowley, who thought Of Human Bondage Maugham's greatest work, and asked, "Why did he never climb back...
...There would be only one categorical exemption, for "ministers of religion" - a title that few 20-year-olds could claim. Otherwise, said Selective Service Spokesman Brayton Harris, "there will be no student deferments, no occupational deferments and no automatic deferments for family status," meaning that married youths, young fathers and even mothers would be subject to induction. Local draft boards, however, could defer those who pleaded excessive hardship or asked to be excused as conscientious objectors...
...than by criminal trial juries. Declares Leon Jaworski, who has been on both sides of such interbranch conflicts, as special Watergate prosecutor and special counsel to a House committee probing the Korea bribery scandal: "Congress has never done a very good job of investigating itself. The House committee should defer to a speedy and thorough investigation by the Justice Department...