Word: deferent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great immediate advantage for the Western alliance-it headed off, at least temporarily, what would have been a highly embarrassing U.N. Security Council debate on France's conduct in North Africa. Delighted at the prospect of U.S. involvement in North African affairs, Habib Bourguiba quickly agreed to defer Tunisia's demand for immediate discussion of the Sakiet bombing. France, for its part, accepted postponement of debate on her counter-complaint charging the Tunisians with giving aid to the Algerian rebels...
...nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft. At 7:45 a.m. 22 negotiators crowded round a table in the main hall of King Hussein's palace and signed a twelve-point federation agreement bound...
...credit package made available to France $250 million from the European Payments Union and $131 million from its quota in the International Monetary Fund, enabled it to defer payments on $186 million owed to the U.S. and the Export-Import Bank during the next three years, and to pay the U.S. in francs for $88 million worth of military supplies and surplus cotton...
...Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still needed to pay for its new equipment." In Chicago, Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker told a press conference that Eastern will "definitely have to defer" its big jet procurement program if CAB does not grant a fare increase...
...business-with precise method still undecided-of speeding up the training of young scientists (see below). ¶ The Administration will probably request $4 billion for foreign economic and military aid - $1 billion more than Congress approved last summer, ¶ A definite effort will be made to cut and defer nonessentials in the federal budget, e.g., rivers and harbors projects, and the President will put the responsibility for cutting pet congressional projects squarely on Congress. ¶ Pentagon Missile Adviser William M. Holaday will now have full power "to direct all activities in the Department of Defense relating to research, development, engineering...