Word: defers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenon called summer melt," Lewis said. "A few students who are planning to attend at this point will decide to defer. You can never tell for sure, so you always need a couple of extra students...
...nation is unwilling to provide absolutely complete access to United Nations observers in all of its nuclear facilities, other countries have every right to deny that nation nuclear power. Any discussion of an `international invasion of privacy' must defer to a far more pressing issue; a nuclear unknown quantity poses a security risk to every other nation in the world...
...Simply because he is black, Washington and his partners were able to make a special tax deferral part of their $2.3 billion acquisition of Viacom Inc.'s cable systems. Under the provision, a company that sells a cable system to a partnership controlled by a minority can qualify to defer its capital gains on the sale indefinitely. The law was designed to encourage minority ownership of broadcast properties, a fact Washington knows better than most. He wrote the original policy at the FCC in the late 1970s and since then has secured the tax break for five similar transactions. Those...
This is the situation: I won a Rhodes Scholarship, was admitted into Yale Law School and just last night got an offer from McKinsey. The thing is, I can't do them all at the same time. Which one should I pick first, defer, bag all together? I mean, the Rhodes is the super coolest, Yale is the best law school in the universe, and I'd get zillions of frequent flyer miles traveling all over the place consulting for McKinsey. (I could get a free ticket to Tahiti every winter!) The decision is driving me nuts...
...great unwashed have become cynical and disillusioned about representative democracy. Politicos promise us anything, only to toe the party line and defer to the bureaucracy once elected. Until we personally feel we have some real input into the political system, we will remain as cynical...