Word: delay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went through five roofs," reports an aide, when other advisers pressured Carter to counter a partly inaccurate New York Times report that the President had decided against production of the weapon by immediately announcing that he had resolved only to postpone production. Vance argued for a week's delay in which to brief affected NATO allies. He was given only a few days, but it was time enough to get out advance word and limit the diplomatic damage...
...have repeatedly brought forth the same basic set of facts to the Corporation. The University's indecisiveness while hundreds of South African blacks face arbitrary imprisonment or even death by starvation demonstrates that the Corporation is either seriously, if honestly, misguided, or is engaged in a censurable policy of delay and obfuscation...
Although Harvard filed an appeal of that ruling in February, a coalition representing 5000 residents of the neighborhood surrounding the site of the plant charged Harvard this week with trying to delay the hearing on the appeal...
...lightweight crew came up with the unfortunate answer in an opening day loss to Rutgers, in a race marred by gusty winds, turbulence from the tourist-trap Circle Line sightseeing boat (can you believe people actually pay for the privilege of smelling the Harlem River?), and a lengthy delay in the start of what never became a close encounter of any kind...
...Committee on the Core gathered 2500 student signatures asking the Faculty to delay a vote on the plan to give them more time to participate in the University-wide debate...