Word: deferring
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However, the Conservatives believe in a theory of authority, Beer noted. Due the inevitable inequality in the natural abilities of men and the subsequent differences in their education, certain people should rule and the others should defer to their judgment. "And there are plenty of deferential followers left in England today, or else politics there woudn't be what they are today," he insisted...
Holmes' accusations are vigorously denied by Maj. Remo G. Gandin at the Massachusetts Selective Service headquarters. "We defer people because its going to be a hardship on them. ...When we can't use everyone in the country, we can and should be selective. ...We take the best qualified and the ones who will cause the least trouble to the armed forces while they...
...TAXES. Nowhere has the breakdown in communication been more evident than in the Administration's vain effort to put through a $1.7 billion tax credit for plant modernization. Though intended as a gesture to business, it died because businessmen opposed it, figuring that it would only defer what they really wanted: a $5 billion across-the-board liberalization of depreciation allowances. Businessmen are also worried about the possibility of higher taxes in January and petty tax annoyances right now. An airline president gripes about the Internal Revenue Bureau's crackdown on convention expenses; a major oil company president...
...bill before it becomes law. In Diefenbaker's view, the Senate is a relic-its appointed members are supposed to be seen but not heard. The current Senate, though, is controlled by the opposition Liberals, and they have very different ideas. Last week the Senate voted to defer its approval until Banker Coyne has a chance to tell his side of the story before a senatorial hearing...
...preferred to remain out of the public view and to defer the applause of the moment to the judgment of history...