Word: defers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard -- but wrong on the second. By the time "Old No. 3," as Blackmun called himself, announced his retirement last week, he had become the court's most reliable liberal voice. "This is a guy who came to the court thinking it was the role of the court to defer to government," says Yale law professor Harold Koh. But as Blackmun read the cases, he realized not all government was good. Only when a Democrat was in the White House did he feel it was safe to retire...
Albright, who was admitted to Harvard last spring but was asked to defer admission for a year, spent three months shearing sheep in Australia before joining the NOLS trip to Kenya...
Most students interviewed say that while they would probably seek acceptance into business school right out of college if possible, they would defer enrollment in order to work for two or three years...
Congress should not defer to the pressures applied by the NRA and the gun industry. Too many times, government has abandoned efforts to eliminate menaces to the whole nation when one industrial sector or another begins to howl. The problem of guns affects all of society. No small minority should hinder the efforts to find a solution...
While some graduates may not personally feel women should be admitted to the club, they will probably defer to the undergraduates' wishes, said Evan W. Thomas Ill '73, a graduate member who has been asked by Fly Graduate President Eric Vogt '70 to speak on the club's behalf...