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Whether his statement that "there is a better than even chance" there will be no need for gas rationing in the United States this year helped to defer people's minds from the continuing revelations of Watergate is open to question. It did not, however, deter the press...
...student-faculty-alumni ACSR will meet today to discuss the IRRC report, but will probably defer any decision on the plant until January...
Burger's legal model is the British system, under which some 300,000 solicitors defer to 3,000 barristers for all courtroom advocacy. The resulting professionalism speeds the trial process and tends to prevent a case turning primarily on the uneven skills of opposing advocates. Critics contend that the clubbiness of British barristers sometimes leads them to pull punches rather than fight for the best interests of clients. But Burger feels that too many U.S. lawyers push the adversary system to the other extreme and brawl to an unreasonable degree that wastes court time...
Howard W. Davis, Coop General Manager, said yesterday that he was surprised by the complaint because "the coyote is defined as the American Wolf and besides, the labeling was done by the manufacturer and we would have to defer to them...
...biology then, is to take chemistry (either Nat Sci 3 or Chem 6) in the first semester and, if you manage to do honors work in both the chemistry and math courses first semester, enroll in Bio 2 during the spring, in general, however, it is probably wise to defer your initial bio course until sophomore year. After having taken the one-year of required biology, it is wise to take at least an additional semester of bio, which might include any of the between-level courses or Biochem 10, which, I feel, is a superb choice...