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...according to a September brief from FAIR, “the courts traditionally defer to the military” only on “complex, subtle, and professional” decisions regarding issues such as strategy and training. By contrast, a court of nine law school graduates is “perfectly competent” to decide whether the military needs campus access “in order to attract the attention of brilliant young lawyers.” FAIR will argue that the Solomon Amendment is unnecessary for that purpose...
Truth to tell, the 401(k) was never intended as a retirement plan. It evolved out of a tax break that Congress awarded to corporate executives in 1978, allowing them to defer part of their salaries and cut their tax bills. At the time, federal income-tax rates were much higher for upper-income individuals--the top rate was 70%. (Today it's half that.) It wasn't until several years later that companies began to make 401(k)s available to most employees. Even then, the idea was to encourage saving and provide a tax shelter, not to substitute...
...traveling in any country with the slightest of State Department travel warnings. The policy stipulated that undergrads could not travel to countries for which the State Department had stated that US citizens should “consider carefully the risks of travel” or “defer travel.” With this stringent policy in place, students could not study in countries such as Israel, Lebanon, Iran, and Kenya. The result was that students were prevented from traveling to some of the most interesting and educational places in the world simply because of a general, blanket warning...
...order to evaluate whether the death of those trees was worthwhile, the question begs to be asked: does information provided in the student planner actually affect Harvard students’ decisions regarding parenthood planning or (as is probably the case) prevention? “We will have to defer the answers to the efficacy question until we evaluate it later in the academic year,” Ballinger says...
...dents in it. "The community aspect is not something Wal-Mart has typically had to deal with," says Garner. "Coming to a city and having to deal with ex-offenders, for instance. These aren't the sorts of problems that Wal-Mart typically deals with. They were looking to defer the risk...