Word: deferred
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Before the end of his second term, F.D.R. was able to fill five vacancies on the court. By the time he died in 1945 he had appointed eight Supreme Court Justices, more than any other President since George Washington. F.D.R. wanted Justices who would show judicial restraint, who would defer to the authority of the Federal Government. The men he chose did show restraint, but only on economic matters. Two of his appointees, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, went on to lead a revolution in individual rights that culminated in the activist Warren Court era of the 1960s...
...addition to military savings, would limit Reagan's third-year tax cut to $750 for all individuals, close some $15 billion in tax loopholes and defer tax indexing. Wants to reduce Medicare costs by .encouraging nonhospital treatment, preventive care and use of health maintenance organizations. Emphasizes growth of the economy as a deficit-chopping tool...
...receive no cash until their bonds mature, they must still pay annual taxes as the principal and interest grow. Result: tax-exempt investors like pension funds have been the main buyers of the bonds. But consumers are also snapping them up for Individual Retirement Accounts, which allow savers to defer taxes annually on as much as $2,000 of income. With this year's deadline for tax filing approaching, many investors have been finding the bonds a good place to put their cash...
...same time, De Gaulle made the world defer to France as no leader had since Napoleon. He withdrew his country from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's command structure, gave France its nuclear force de frappe and blocked Britain's entry into the Common Market To many countrymen, he was merely demanding the respect a great nation deserved. To others, he was being thin-skinned and dictatorial. Indeed in ten years after De Gaulle returned to power, Cook reports, his government obtained 350 convictions under an old law against "insulting the head of state," up from three...
Scientists see immense possibilities for the donor-egg techniques. Says Australia's Dr. Wood: "It is now theoretically possible to override menopause, thus extending the childbearing years of women who marry late in life, remarry or defer having children until middle...