Word: deferring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the benefactor materialized, it was to take Manasantivongs in a new direction, far from Cambridge and academic plans altogether. In recent weeks, the Eliot House resident has decided to defer admission to Cambridge and travel instead to Western Europe in search of excolonial communities, from Africans living in Portugal to Surinamese and Indonesians in the Netherlands...
...this light, the Ad Board must do two things. First, in serious matters where a student's conduct might constitute a serious criminal offense--i.e., rape and physical or sexual assault--the Board must defer its fact-finding role to the courts. It is based on these findings, and not on those of a subcommittee, that the board should subsequently fulfill its educational and disciplinary mission...
...years ago that what best sums up our college experience is whether or not we participated in intramural sports. But who could possibly care about whether we rowed House crew? Instead, shouldn't it say, to be accurate, "Discovered that her time is hers, and she should never, ever, defer life"? Or perhaps "Understood the value of staring at the ceiling, and, when at the front of a long lunch line, often selected individual strands of spaghetti"? Or perhaps "Loved the following people..."? Or maybe "Figured out that no one should ever want to be famous"? Or "Spent too much...
...more, all served up in an easy-to-understand style. What's more, Null does not seem motivated by profit. He leads a health-support group in Manhattan and charges nothing for enrollment, and despite fierce bidding for his manuscripts, he often chooses small publishers, and then may defer royalties to help make the project affordable. Null, says Bob Marty, producer of the PBS shows, is "a pretty generous...
Connery says "sometimes there is a tendency to defer to board members who know more about an area...there are several members of the board with a dance background...