Word: delay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks ago Administration officials thought they had the battle won in the House committee. They were wrong. Fascell pulled together a substantial (22 to 15) majority behind his resolution, but then committee members decided to delay any decision until this week. Suddenly the action shifted to the Senate committee, chaired by Alabama Democrat John Sparkman...
Last week's Wichita vote caused tremors among gays from San Francisco to New York. When the Wichita results became known in San Francisco, more than 1,000 demonstrators staged a march to Union Square chanting, "Wichita means fight back." In Chicago, Alderman Clifford Kelley decided to delay pressing for a local gay rights ordinance after the St. Paul and Wichita votes. Said he: "I'd rather not call up the bill if it would make a real poor showing." In New York, a Post poll showed city residents narrowly opposed to enactment of a homosexual rights bill...
...Correspondent George Taber: "If curbing inflation is left to monetary policy alone, then we have very serious dilemmas. My priority has been to call attention to a coordinated effort by Congress, the Administration and the Federal Reserve." That is why he was the first major policymaker to urge a delay in Jimmy Carter's proposed $25 billion tax cut, a position vindicated when the President agreed to make the cut smaller and later...
...delay in moving Prince House has not postponed the construction of a biochemistry lab on Divinity Ave., since the planning of the new building is also behind schedule, he said...
...recent weeks Congress has grown uneasy about the size of the deficit, but instead of acting to limit spending, a movement is gaining ground to reduce or delay the $25 billion tax cut that Carter plans for October. Doing that might crimp the growth of the economy. It would be far better to reduce spending and use part of the savings to cut taxes...