Word: defers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Bangladesh approached Commonwealth status, Pakistan was quitting it. Then Bhutto flew to Peking, where the Chinese agreed to convert $110 million in loans to Pakistan into grants and to defer payment of a $200 million loan made last year...
Eighty applicants accepted by the Law School this year will be given the opportunity to defer admission for up to two years...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences does not offer applicants the option to defer admission. The competition for places in each department varies greatly from year to year, and therefore acceptance one year gives little indication of ones chances for acceptance at a later time...
Reasonable men can, of course, differ as to the precise limits of opposition activity in a university community, but the signers of the petition were certainly within their rights in publicizing their thinking on this matter. Surely we do not have to defer to the wise men of Dunster House for our cues in this regard. If we did, I would wager that academic freedom at Harvard would be threadbare. Martin Kllson Professor of Government
There were other grapplings last week in the continual struggle for advantage between Democratic Congress and Republican President. Among them: >After delaying for nearly a year, Chairman Mills came up with his own version of the revenue-sharing program that Nixon once proposed and later was forced to defer because of Mills' opposition, and because the federal deficit has already reached a record high. The Mills plan would pass along roughly the same amounts of money; under it, for five years state governments would get $1.8 billion annually from federal revenues, and local governments $3.5 billion. But Mills rejected...