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...Meanwhile, the continuing American and British policy is to draw down, not increase, their military presence in southern Iraq. The British are in the midst of pulling out of the port city of Basra. The long-standing American policy has been to defer to Shi'ite religious sensibilities and keep as low a profile as possible in holy cities like Karbala and Najaf...
...hundreds of thousands of bridges that it's just not going to happen. But these numbers highlight the problem of the nation's infrastructure. No word is likely to make taxpayers' eyes glaze over more quickly. As a result, officials at all levels of government tend to defer maintenance on bridges and roadways; the voters wouldn't stand for the required expenditures, estimated at more than $9 billion a year. They might, however, be willing to pay for more frequent and thorough inspections, which could distinguish the structurally deficient bridges in imminent danger of failure from those that aren...
...write about myself, and I am at a loss. That’s why I’ll defer to Calvin, who declares “that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity...
Adler was initially waitlisted by Harvard, but was granted admission on the condition that he defer a year...
While the lawsuits may strengthen student rights, they come at a high cost for schools--in diminished authority as well as dollars. "We used to defer to the professional discretion of teachers and administrators," says Richard Arum, a professor of sociology and education at New York University and the author of Judging School Discipline. "Now our schools are run increasingly by lawyers and judges, and that has profound consequences in undermining the moral authority of school discipline...