Word: deferred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defer his enrollment into gradschool, Mohler says he is considering playingbasketball professionally in Europe for a year.Whatever he does, Mohler will leave a big gap inthe Crimson when he departs...
...Nitze-Akhromeyev working group focused its efforts on drafting the language of its joint communique in such a way as to defer the SDI problem without undermining the validity of the ABM treaty. At the same time, it sought to reach agreement on the "subceilings" that would be placed on different types of strategic missiles and bombers within the framework of reducing each side's warheads by half. The group was still struggling with texts and numbers as Gorbachev and Reagan were ending their final working lunch in the Family Dining Room of the White House. Stretching out their meal...
...language worked out was both tortured and mushy, just what was needed to defer the dispute to another day. Says Gerasimov: "It means we postponed our quarrels." The negotiators in Geneva were instructed to "work out an agreement that would commit the sides to observe the ABM treaty, as signed in 1972, while conducting their research, development and testing as required, which are permitted by the ABM treaty, and not to withdraw from the ABM treaty for a specified period of time." Behind the convoluted language lies a compromise that allows the two leaders to take opposed positions...
...just this seemingly lackadaisical review process that concerns critics. According to Oklahoma Congressman Mike Synar, who headed an investigation of the 1986 incident, the EPA and other agencies tend to defer to the NRC in matters involving radioactive materials. But the NRC, he says, "fixes almost exclusively on the radioactive, not chemical, hazards," which may be more to the point in this case. State efforts to regulate the spraying have meanwhile been stymied by jurisdictional questions, which were finally resolved last spring, when the Oklahoma water resources board asserted its right to address the possible threat to groundwater. Its decision...
Tokumo and Weiner are not music concentrators, although Weiner did defer coming to Harvard for a year to study guitar at the Paris Conservatory. Much of the historical information comes from MMV's faculty advisers, Mason Professor of Music and Music Department Chairman Christoph Wolff and Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone. Wolff is an expert on Bach and German baroque music, while Boone is an expert on music of the Renaissance. Between them, their knowledge spans the entire period of MMV's interest...