Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pierre Trudeau, also the leader of a Commonwealth nation, said that he was "astonished" by the U.S. reticence. The government of French President François Mitterrand termed the U.S. invasion "a surprising action in relation to international law," and said that "the people of Grenada must recover without delay the right to determine their destiny." The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued an unusually blunt statement declaring that "if we had been consulted we would have advised against it." In Italy, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said that his government "can only disapprove this decision," and added...
Andropov's announcement was an obvious bid to cow West European leaders into seeking a delay in deployment. It came on the heels of large antimissile demonstrations across Western Europe the previous weekend, and only a day after U.S. forces invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada. It was the second threat from the Kremlin in two days. Before Andropov's message was released, the Soviet Defense Ministry confirmed that Moscow was prepared to retaliate against Western deployment by moving new nuclear missiles into East Germany and Czechoslovakia. "Preparatory work is being started on the territory of the German...
...newspapers and trade journals were filled with speculation about the new machine and its expected announcement date. Late last week the guesswork grew frenzied. After the Boston Globe published what it called a photograph of the home computer, Wall Street began hearing rumors that an angered IBM would delay the new model until early next year. But industry watchers quickly dismissed the reports as "disinformation" put out by the company to heighten suspense...
...upshot of the sorry spectacle was doubt, delay and the sense that the public interest had not been so much served as manipulated to cause chaos in the case...
...linking financial aid with draft registration on a national level--a law which opponents say violates the right to a fair trial and induces self-incrimination. Since the justices are expected to decide on the matter in the next few months, it would seem practical for Dukakis to delay implementation and see whether his "serious questions" are indeed justified...