Word: defers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare, partly because everybody knows everybody and everybody's business. Aramco's 4,267 U.S. employees and dependents live in company-built suburbias (rent: $300 a month for an air-conditioned three-bedroom bungalow) that also house Aramco Arab executives' families. The Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally...
...kind of Disneyland East, has turned out to be a tunnel of horrors, lost several million dollars last year. His scheme for selling his hotels and leasing them back has backfired because of falling occupancy rates and higher costs. The softening real estate market has forced him to defer many of his plans to sell off Webb & Knapp buildings to raise cash. And, to top it all off, the New York Stock Exchange finally turned down the two-block site near Wall Street that Zeckendorf had proposed for its new home, decided on another instead. All told, Webb & Knapp last...
...Murville rose to demand that the discussions with Britain be ended. "What," he asked the delegates, "is the sense of going on with these negotiations after the press conference of General de Gaulle?" What, indeed? At week's end the delegates gratefully took a scheduled adjournment, agreed to defer a final decision until...
...urgency of tax reform, the C.E.D. disagreed sharply with Mills. "We hope that action in the early part of 1963 will not be delayed by disagreements about the precise size and distribution of the tax reductions. It would be particularly unwise to defer action pending the resolution of a list of perennial and highly controversial problems of the tax structure." The C.E.D. also disagreed with the Byrd view that 1963 tax cuts should be accompanied by substantial reductions in Government expenditures. Tax reduction, argued the C.E.D., would so stimulate the economy, by fostering investment and demand, that revenues would rise...
...Father Urban's brothers and superiors understand this, however, and Urban, forced to defer to mediocrity, suffers the torments of a good man who is not allowed to do as well as he can. There is, indeed, one black period when Urban is taken off the lunch-and-lecture circuit and set to scraping wallpaper in a drafty retreat house...