Word: deferent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hampshire law, Mrs. Clark's lawyer requested a pretrial look at the "place of injury" doctrine. As a result, New Hampshire's approach to choice of law has been drastically revised. From now on, said State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank R. Kenison, New Hampshire will defer to whichever state offers "the sounder rule...
...which opened Congress' first major investigation of the draft since 1951, the white-haired, crew-cut Hershey defended continued exemptions of college students training to be professionals such as doctors and engineers. "If we want skills that may be critical tomorrow," he argued, "we should be prepared to defer them when the needs of the armed forces permit." Noted Hershey: "There is concern over 'inequity.' Equality of ability, equality of service do not exist." When Pennsylvania Republican Richard Schweiker argued that a "national policy would reduce these inequities," Hershey coolly countered: "If you are driving 65 miles...
...tells you they want you to get an education; they're doing the opposite of what they say if they take the college students out." Donald ("King") White, 18, about to graduate from Manhattan's Louis D. Brandeis High School, thinks that it might be unfair to defer college students: "If they dodge the draft, I'm against them; if they're going to do good for the community, I'm with them...
...House, he asked: "How many of you would recommend tomorrow a tax in crease for the purpose of restraining our economy? Those of you that would, I wish you would raise your right hand." Not a hand went up. In that case, said Johnson, he would expect them to defer, stretch out or abandon at least $6 billion of a total of $60 billion in planned capital expenditures. Several agreed to try. Campbell Soup President Willam B. Murphy ordered aides to cut back on all capital expenditures except those that are "absolutely required," and not to be outsouped...
...President had already revealed that he had asked Lady Bird to buy cheaper cuts of meat for the White House. Now he confessed that they had long been planning to add "two little rooms" to their house on the L.B.J. ranch. "But I asked Mrs. Johnson last night to defer those two rooms. That is a little thing, but if everybody does that, it won't get too tight, it won't heat up too much, the economy won't get out of our hands, and prices won't go up 5% in the next five...