Word: defers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...calls Balladur's ``betrayal.'' Two years ago, with the conservatives poised to win a majority in legislative elections, Chirac and Balladur cut a deal: Chirac, then leader of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) party, would put Balladur into the Prime Minister's job; Balladur, in turn, would defer to Chirac as the Gaullists' ``natural'' candidate in the 1995 presidential election...
...Zedillo has some breathing room. Recognizing that he | had to defuse the situation quickly, last week he drew back an army buildup around rebel areas and accepted the rebel demand that Bishop Samuel Ruiz help negotiate peace. But in his new economic plan he is certain to defer his election promise that 1995 will be the year that prosperity will trickle down to the masses. That could mean the kind of social discontent that launched Mexico on its most recent cycle of headaches. Welcome to the nightmare...
...rare show of accommodation on Whitewater matters, incoming Senate Banking chairman Alfonse D'Amato said he would indefinitely defer Senate hearings into the tangled financial affair in order to avoid stepping on the toes of independent counsel Kenneth Starr. But the New York Republican predicted that the hearings, when they do resume, will probably stretch into the 1996 election season...
...would put us a whole year behind in our quest to save the world or rule he world (depending on the particular Harvard student) but in the end, it might very well be worthwhile. As a sophomore suffering through a slump of my own, I think maybe I'll defer my degree in Applied Math for a year or so, and pursue more relaxed studies. Maybe the Tokyo Dome has an opening for an usher. At the very least they have bass-ball...