Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told them the services would have to call up reserves and induct people who had been previously deferred." The President suggested that he would accuse Senators voting against the draft of relegating the U.S. to second-rate military status. Observed Stennis: "It would be a serious mistake to delay this bill because of a disagreement about...
...Seventh Army is assigned to blunt and delay Soviet attacks from the east until stronger forces can be assembled. To accomplish this, it has infantry and armored units scattered from Frankfurt to Bavaria. About 90,000 troops are considered combat ready. They include an advance guard of the Second and 14th Armored Cavalry regiments, which patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, and the Berlin Brigade. The remainder of the Seventh is of uncertain efficiency...
After a year's delay, women will be permitted to enter the competition for positions on the Harvard Lampoon this Fall for the first time in the magazine's 95-year history...
...many years ago, colleges frowned on peripatetic students. Now many administrations are beginning to give them formal encouragement. Increasing numbers of colleges advertise what they did informally for years-allow successful applicants to delay their entry for a year. The colleges assure the students-and their worried parents -that they will have places the following fall...
...recalcitrant automakers and the insistent Transportation Department. The automakers will eventually install air bags, which seem to be the most sensible safety device yet proposed, but they clearly need more time to perfect the bags. Twice before, the deadlines for installing air bags in cars have been postponed. Another delay now seems likely...