Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...families in peace. They want to educate their children. I said that only governments seem to cause wars; wars do not come from people. Now, whether he read that letter or not, I don't know, and will never have any way of knowing. After quite a long delay, the answer that came to me was not handwritten, nor was it personal. It was the usual rhetoric that is publicly exchanged between our two countries...
...second is to begin a process that will lead to increased dialogue. After recent years, that would take time anyway: Andropov's illness means the Soviet Union has a leadership problem in the immediate future. That has to be understood and may cause delay...
...between President Johnson and his Council of Economic Advisers. Council Chairman Gardner Ackley argued that taxes had to be raised to pay for the Viet Nam War, but Johnson would not hear of it. He later changed his mind and signed a tax-increase bill in 1968, but the delay was a costly mistake. Many economists believe it helped unleash the inflationary spiral that U.S. policymakers have been battling ever since...
...final match, the delayed 118-lb. division, sophomore Steve Fabry had a tough time against senior Rich Testa of WPI, whose test at WPI earlier in the day forced the delay. With his teammates cheering wildly, Testa used his experience to overmatch Fabry and win the meet for Worcester...
...unnatural manner of moving, along with the vapid manner in which they rattle off their lines, makes the audience feel self-conscious. Moreover, the whiny manner in which Jasowiak delivers her lines grates on the audience after five minutes of forced, unvaried delivery. Both performances do little more than delay the two long-awaited intermissions...