Word: defers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Ways & Means Committee endorsed President Eisenhower's proposals to give relief to U.S. companies doing business overseas. The committee approved tax-law revisions 1) permitting American firms with branches abroad to defer tax payments on foreign earnings until the income is brought into the U.S., and 2) making overseas income taxable at 38% rather than the present...
...only is a more uniform deferment policy needed, but also a more realistic definition of what a graduate student is. Many Selective Service boards say they will defer full time students who are doing well, but not part-time students who do not fulfill their definition of a "legitimate" curriculum. These boards do not realize that the average graduate science student beyond the first year cannot afford to study full time; to pay his way, he usually devotes half his time to teaching or research. If draft boards insisted that these men do nothing but study, few could...
...William Christensen, professor of radiology, ran the first program and showed a mass of X rays to help physicians diagnose their patients' complaints from shadows showing calcification. One particularly clear example: spotting a case of diabetes from chalky deposits in the sperm duct. Only once did Dr. Christensen defer to the possible presence of laymen in the audience, by describing a fetus shown in the womb as "a little stranger." On the other hand, there was nothing that the accidental, nonprofessional viewer could have found upsetting...
...courses of the older type have been virtually replaced, as distribution, by the courses in General Education. Their value at the moment is largely for concentrators. A careful study of the enrollment in English 1 during the last few years showed that future concentrators in English increasingly tended to defer taking English 1 until their sophomore or junior year; for the freshman year was largely devoted to courses in General Education. The Department of History may possibly have had a similar problem in mind when it did away with History 1, and offered an analogous course in General Education. Perhaps...
...Most field birders defer to their more scientific brethren, refuse to call themselves field ornithologists. They also feel that the more common lay term of birdwatcher is undignified and inaccurate, and would be more appropriately applied to "dickey birders," who retain the fledgling illusion that birds sing because they are happy...