Word: defers
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...sense of fatalism about their choices. A law partner who put in 350 work hours during her three-month maternity leave is convinced that her time off diminished her chances of advancement; but the advice she gives, echoed by a majority of women in the survey, is, "Do not defer your personal life. Men don't, and you shouldn't. You will be discriminated against as a woman whether or not you have a personal life." An unmarried Boston law partner offers another practical tip: "Have your children at one job and your career at another...
Scientists are also trying to find inborn personality traits that might make people more physically aggressive. The tendency to be a thrill seeker may be one such characteristic. So might "a restless impulsiveness, an inability to defer gratification," says psychologist Richard Herrnstein of Harvard, whose theories about the hereditary nature of intelligence stirred up a political storm in the 1970s. A high threshold for anxiety or fear may be another key trait. According to psychologist Jerome Kagan, also of Harvard, such people tend to have a "special biology," with lower-than-average heart rates and blood pressure...
...will President Clinton bend his knee to the murderous thugs who lead Serbian aggression in Bosnia? How far can they push him without a response that preserves American honor? Those questions must be asked after Clinton's disastrous first move in Bosnia. Consider what the president did to defer to Serbian sensibilities--and what he got in return...
...Moscow and ensure that the "inner core" of Gaidar's team was not excluded from the new government. But the show of authority could not obscure Yeltsin's political weakness. And his nation remains impoverished. Although officials from the G-7 industrialized nations agreed to permit Russia to defer payments on $15 billion of the $16 billion it owes in foreign debts for this year and next, the country is still $86 billion in arrears...
...Cambridge the average daily room price inthe first half of 1992 fell by $1.40. Thatdecline, coupled with a rise in inflation, makesindustry watchers nervous that hotels will cutservices, defer needed maintenance and lay offworkers. that could devalue the quality of thearea hotels, which could hurt the industry in thelong...