Word: defers
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...under way. In his first postvictory public utterances, the President-elect said he wants South Korea to be treated as an equal by the U.S., not as a ward. And despite his lack of foreign-policy experience, he made it clear that his incoming administration will not defer to the U.S. on North Korean diplomacy. "The traditional friendship and alliance between the Republic of Korea and the United States must mature and advance in the 21st century," Roh said in his first postelection news conference...
...provide Blix's team with their hottest intelligence to point them to the locations where they'll catch Iraq red-handed. And if that happens, an invasion will likely be inevitable. But until it does, the allies Washington seeks in Europe and the Arab world may be inclined to defer their own decisions about participating...
...while presidents should not defer to military leaders, Cohen said, they should try to understand their position...
...There are several people who had to defer,” Casey says. “There are people we don’t know about who have decided not to come because of difficulties...
Several other Harvard students from 26 countries for which the State Department has new, strict, post-Sept. 11 visa policies were unable to make their deadlines and had to defer admission until next year...