Word: deferring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feagin also points to a low percentage of deferred gifts as another measure of the Campaign's success. University officials expected about 30 percent of donors to defer their gifts until their death or at least until a later date. To date, only 10 percent of gifts have been deferred...
...ethos of resistance to the status quo. Professors and courses which promote autonomy and resistance exist at the College, but I find them to be few and far between. Harvard usually teaches and socializes its students, often through subtle and implicit mechanisms, to prize tradition and to submit or defer to authority...
What to do? At one extreme, a Republican bill would repeal the tax entirely. At the other, the White House would merely let heirs to family-owned farms and businesses stretch out payments over 14 years, as now, but defer more tax and pay lower interest on it. The most likely basis for compromise is a G.O.P. bill that has picked up some Democratic support. It would raise the general exemption from $600,000 to $1 million; farms and businesses would be taxed only on half of any amount over $1.5 million...
...student money. The more money the council earmarks to student groups, the more it becomes just a clearinghouse for student money and the less it is capable of doing what a real student government should do: Make student life on campus better by itself without always having to defer to student groups. --Thomas P. Windom...
According to the lottery of that class, they both got seats. I did not. First-years like me, most of whom were desperate to learn that material from that professor, were forced to defer to the passing curiosity of some upperclass students. While something is to be said for an upperclass student's "last shot at taking a class," genuine interest in a course must outweigh seniority...