Word: defer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capital goods faster than they actually lose value. Estimated revenue gain: $3 billion annually. In addition, both the Nelson bill and the Muskie paper call for an end to the DISC program (for Domestic International Sales Corporation), which allows companies to set up special firms to handle exports and defer taxes indefinitely on some of their profits...
While Bangladesh approached Commonwealth status, Pakistan was quitting it. Then Bhutto flew to Peking, where the Chinese agreed to convert $110 million in loans to Pakistan into grants and to defer payment of a $200 million loan made last year...
Eighty applicants accepted by the Law School this year will be given the opportunity to defer admission for up to two years...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does not offer applicants the option to defer admission. The competition for places in each department varies greatly from year to year, and therefore acceptance one year gives little indication of ones chances for acceptance at a later time...
Reasonable men can, of course, differ as to the precise limits of opposition activity in a university community, but the signers of the petition were certainly within their rights in publicizing their thinking on this matter. Surely we do not have to defer to the wise men of Dunster House for our cues in this regard. If we did, I would wager that academic freedom at Harvard would be threadbare. Martin Kllson Professor of Government