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...said the estimates are used as tactic to force faculties to be responsible for the upkeep of their buildings. "This way they don't defer on their maintenance and have the need for major repairs," Spiegelman said...
...Eritreans. But if there is no political settlement, the Americans will argue, the Eritreans are poised to win their independence by force. What's more, the U.S. will maintain, Ethiopia can remain intact even with Mengistu gone because the Eritreans, to everyone's amazement, say they will defer their dream of a separate state...
ANOTHER REASON Bush keeps disagreements under wraps is that they hurt the administration's credibility. The government wants citizens to think that it always pursues the correct policies. It wants to encourage trust, defer ence and uncritical support. Internal dissent might undermine the legitimacy of the regime...
...individual's judgment, ordinarily sound and self-aware, may defer to the collective judgment in a group, where individual responsibility gets diffused, scattered among the many. Says R. Scott Tindale, associate professor of psychology at Chicago's Loyola University: "Under normal circumstances, when you are deciding what to do, you have internal standards to check. When you are in a group setting, when you are less self-focused, you don't check these inner standards. You are more likely to check the standards around you." It takes a strong, poised character to wade against the currents of group will. Those...
...committee persists with its ludicrous shenanigans. Candidates have been instructed not to speak to the press. Committee members defer to the committee spokesperson. Purported spokesperson Charles L. Slichter Jr. '45 does not speak to anybody. (Rumor has it he has not spoken to a Harvard undergraduate in 45 years...