Word: deferred
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...Thousands. Where to cut? Most members of Congress oppose amputation of major programs. Instead, critics insist that the Administration can judiciously defer or slow down spending in nonessential areas and still save $5 billion or more. Most often mentioned are military construction in the U.S., the supersonic transport project, the space program, research and development in all fields (which now amounts to $17 billion), and such frills as highway beautification. Last week Wisconsin's John Byrnes, senior Republican on Ways and Means, got a call from the Interior Department informing him of a $2,000 grant for picnic facilities...
...Committeeman John W. Byrnes, must tell the people: "We can't afford the gravy and the butter-we've got to get down to the guns and the necessities." Before he will change his mind, Mills insists that the President must slash billions from housekeeping bills and defer new projects, as the U.S. has always done in wartime...
...fisted frontiersman, but the real source of much American violence is the swift pace of social change, which can be deeply disturbing to the less stable personalities in a society. Europe has usually experienced its revolutions spasmodically, at fairly long intervals, while in between it tends to defer to official authority far more than do Americans...
...college graduates will be guaranteed a 2-S deferment while in good standing. Few undergraduates were drafted under the old law through boards, not compelled to defer them, often asked for students' rank in class or the results of national test scores (both criteria are now eliminated...
This view is supported by precedent in the history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...