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Word: defers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college or trade school now and pay later, borrowing money from their schools, banks or other lending agencies while the Government guaranteed repayment. In 1972 the plan was even extended to students whose parents earned more than $15,000. The terms were easy: students were allowed to defer payment until ten years after graduation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Go Now, Don't Pay Later | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Liberal Party leaders warned that they would withdraw their crucial 13 votes in the House of Commons from the Labor government unless it effectively restrains wages. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and union leaders suggested the twelve-month rule as a compromise, since it would at least defer big wage increases until next year, when inflation is expected to ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Buying Time from the Unions | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...does not excuse one single act of looting or burning during New York's blackout [July 25] to insist that something more is required than calling the perpetrators animals or demanding longer jail sentences. By now we must know that there are problems we have deferred too long and will defer again, work that is too hard to do, sacrifices we find beyond our capacities, corrective action that must be sustained too long for a people too impatient to stay the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: New York's Night of Terror | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...Mafia is overseen nationally ?but loosely?by the Commission, a dozen or so dons who usually, but not always, defer to the dominant boss in New York because he controls the most men and rackets. He may not get his hand kissed as often as Marlon Brando and Al Pacino did in the Godfather films, but he is first among equals. Since Gambino's death, two New York dons have been competing for his crown as capo di tutti capi. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

While letters sent with acceptance notices encourage accepted students to defer their admission, only 32 students have so far taken that option, roughly the same number as last year...

Author: By Peter A. Nitze, | Title: Money Draws Away Harvard Admittees | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

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