Word: defers
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...world, the U.N. and NATO are now looking to get out, and fast. In a recent U.N. report, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat, said the U.N. needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence - and no middle ground between the two communities' views. Kosovar Albanian leaders want results now. "Independence," the Kosovar Albanian Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi told Time, "is necessary for our development. Any [further] delay...
Copple, one of the Crimson’s top recruits, sustained an injury to his left shoulder on the second day of practice during pass blocking drills. Confronted with unavoidable surgery and extensive rehab, Copple chose to defer his acceptance to Harvard and return fresh...
...surgery] will make it difficult (academically) to matriculate this year so he will defer and enroll next year,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy wrote in an email...
...involvement forced Bremer to rip up his plans. In mid-January, Bremer flew to New York and met in the basement of the United Nations building with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Greenstock and several members of the Governing Council. Annan became convinced the Americans would defer to the U.N. on the transition to Iraqi sovereignty. Annan assigned his envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, to go to Iraq to help piece together the interim government and figure out whether direct elections were really feasible in 2004. Brahimi and U.N. election expert Carla Perelli ultimately advised Sistani they were not, and Sistani agreed...
...company's pension burden weighs on profitability, though Congress recently allowed American to defer some payments to underfunded pensions for two years. This year management has put $319 million away for pensions and will spend an additional $300 million on retirees' medical benefits--an expense its younger competitors don't have. These low-cost carriers "pay people a lot less, and they don't provide good benefits," says Arpey. "I do believe people in big public companies should retire with benefits, but we've got to find...