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...School admissions office dropped its one-year experiment this Fall which allowed a randomly-selected group of students to defer matriculation for up to three years...
Worst Aspect. Devaluation of the dollar would not necessarily be bad for the U.S. Prices of such items as Lowenbrau beer and Sony TVs would rise, but American exports would become cheaper for foreigners to buy. Trouble is, new currency changes might not be enough to defer further crises, because revaluations and devaluations can take a long time to make their effects felt. Many U.S. exports are high-technology products-computers and jetliners, for example-that do not always realize a quick increase in sales when the price comes down. Many U.S. imports, such as inexpensive radios, have little domestic...
...American prisoners. In October, the North Vietnamese had agreed to an unconditional return of the P.O.W.s within 60 days. Now they sought to tie the P.O.W. release to a release of thousands of political prisoners in South Viet Nam-a matter that they had earlier agreed to defer to later negotiation among the Vietnamese...
...simply necessary to see the legend whole, as a potential moral force not a national anesthetic. As William Butler Yeats observed: "In dreams begins responsibility." Over there, the dreamers conceived the American idea; they dream it still. Over here, the awakening can no longer be postponed. To defer the responsibilities of the American Dream is to invite the U.S. to produce its own Emigrants some day. And where in the world could they...
...maintenance of colonialism have been wedded in a marriage symbolically consummated with the penetration of colonial territory by the corporate derrick. Farber specifies that "in the re-negotiation of the concession agreement in 1969 (when the drilling investment was beginning to pay off) the government was prepared to defer the deadline for partial relinquishment of the Gulf concession area, as the company had hoped, in return for advance payment of royalties that would help ease a tight budget situation in Angola." The budget was tight because so much of it was going to fight the guerrillas...