Word: defers
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...think it’s wonderful that at Harvard, dining encourages community.” HUDS Director for Marketing and Communications Crista Martin said that while she had not seen the committee’s report, she trusts HUDS to make the proper recommendations. “I defer to the committee,” she said. —Staff writer Margot E. Edelman can be reached at medelman@fas.harvard.edu...
Today, fewer than 20 college seniors a year are admitted directly to HBS, Leopold says. Last spring, she says, another 20 were offered admission to the school, but were asked to defer for two years before starting in the fall...
Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who, like Borden, was asked to defer for two years after applying in his senior year of college, says his two years before HBS will allow him to build on his college leadership experience...
...Finkbeiner asked to defer his position for a year to give his wife time to complete the job application process. Cram received an offer for an assistant professorship at Northeastern and both assumed their new posts this fall...
Some of the challenges go even deeper. "I did not realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Dr. Julia Kim writes from Swaziland, north of Lesotho. Women traditionally turn over all their income to their husbands, she says, and defer to them on matters of treatment--a practice Kim struggled with when trying to convince one father that immediate care was needed for his daughter whose immune system had collapsed...