Word: delay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy consumption. The whole subject, said Schlesinger, is Carter's "No. 1 priority." Carter readily agreed. Said he: "It's the most important domestic issue that we will face while I am in office." He thus placed energy above tax reform (which he decided last week to delay until Congress nears completion of the energy legislation), welfare reform, inflation, unemployment and health insurance. The risky implication was that if his energy program is rejected, his presidency may be judged a failure...
...these demands were not met, read the statement received by Bonn, "Hanns-Martin Schleyer will be shot. There will be no more extensions." In the ultimatum to the Paris daily, the terrorists warned West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "Any attempt on your part to delay or deceive us will mean immediate execution of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and all the passengers and crew of the plane...
...skyjacked jetliner reached Dubai on Friday after hopscotching from Rome to Cyprus and to Bahrain-picking up fuel along the way. Bonn implored Italian authorities to find some excuse to delay the airliner at Rome; the Italians, concerned for the passengers' safety, did not comply. At Dubai, the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktum, tried unsuccessfully to negotiate the release of women and children aboard. Among them were eleven West German beauty queens who had won free vacations in Majorca...
...overhaul of the plant's design, before the foundation was laid, has already resulted in a one-to-two year delay in construction, and attendant costs...
...administrators "are disappointed" by the House's action, an FDA aide, who asked not to be identified said yesterday. "Based on animal studies and scientific extrapolation from those studies, we think the likelihood is very high that additional cases of bladder cancer will result from this delay in the ban," he added...