Word: deference
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...fluid nature of the entire portfolio should be emphasized. A student would be allowed to change letter grades to passes any time after receiving the grades. And he would be permitted, indeed encouraged, to defer including samples of his work in the portfolio until he decided what constituted his best efforts. (Unlimited substitutions would wreak havoc on the Registrar's office...
...Clayton, who was knocked to the ground in the 600-yard race against the Cadets but came back to place in the 1000, is a question mark due to a cold. Ed Nosal, who won the weight throw last weekend, is leaving to get married. "We'll defer to matrimony," McCurdy granted...
...plan, which Yale proposed on Thursday, would allow students to defer their tuition payments over a long-term basis, possibly up to 30 years after their graduation...
...wouldn't works At very least, one could defer judgment until the end of the three months and one million dollars it would take to complete the task...
...retain its independence. Until now, however, it enjoyed the active protection of its parent OEO. Rumsfeld says that he is not likely to decide on decentralization until he hears the results of a study by the National Advisory Council for his legal services later this month. He may further defer the matter until after the November elections. But Legal Services lawyers fear that they will soon, in the words of Terry Hatter Jr. of Los Angeles' Western Center on Law and Poverty, "end up handling nothing but divorces...