Word: defers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michigan courts will no longer defer to governmental actions, thus giving all citizens a new legal right to raise environmental issues. Any individual can challenge lax state agencies as well as polluting industries...
...that could lead to legally binding guidelines for drug advertising. In California, a bill was introduced last January to require every drug manufacturer advertising in the state to spend a quarter of its promotion budget on anti-drug education. The bill's sponsor, Assemblyman William Campbell, agreed to defer hearings until he could assess the results of a campaign against drug abuse that the Advertising Council is sponsoring...
...competent draft counselor on Long Island recounts a story which illustrates well the attempt of local boards to maintain control. In December, two boys applied for teaching deferments on almost identical grounds. The boy numbered 352 had no trouble getting a deferment. The boy numbered 29 was turned down by the local board. The board was only too willing to defer someone out of reach for this year...
...president of American University authorized individual students to defer their exams to next fall, but the school will remain open...
...participate: Dean May and Douglas F. Miranda of the Black Panther Party. May read a statement written by the student members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life recommending that students who wish to be free to act against the escalation of the war be permitted "to defer their academic obligations until the Fall...