Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subversion was ill-advised, the Keyworth initiative did raise a legitimate complaint about the system. It is true that the U.S. needs desperately to develop materials in which to compete both militarily and economically with other countries and that going through a couple of years of scientific review could delay the project. Keyworth is correct in his efforts to try and galvanize U.S. scientific efforts toward competition with the country's military and economic foes and to do that as soon as possible. However, that goal and scientific peer review are not mutually exclusive. To accomplish both goals, Keyworth might...
...least a week off its turnaround time, the number of days it takes technicians to prepare the complex ship for another flight. Challenger now will have to be piggybacked by a NASA 747 to Florida, probably at the end of this week. According to Abrahamson, that will delay its next flight, originally scheduled for mid-August, by about eight days. Moreover, the space agency will probably not be able to try out its new concrete shuttle landing strip at Kennedy until early next year. Reason: Challenger's next flight involves both a nighttime lift-off and landing, while...
...able to put more top spin on his racquet, bounced it off the spongy grass court 15 ft. into the sky, across a fence and into the audience. He also lost, owing to a warning for "racquet abuse," a point's deduction for "an audible obscenity" and a delay of game penalty that cost him a tie breaker and a set. "You cannot default the No. 1 or No. 2 seed because they are the life of the tournament," complained Pfister afterward. "Tournaments don't need a guy like...
...seeds, he means Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, but especially McEnroe, who almost at that precise moment was coiled at the foot of an umpire's chair threatening to walk out of the tournament. In an injured voice, McEnroe said later, "I was warned for delay of game just for trying to put grass back into the hole I made." By the way, he had just gouged the turf with his racquet...
Solomon Amendement foes have intensified their efforts on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Court decision. Currently, there are two House bills calling for a delay in implementation and one in the Senate, as well as one on each side mandating a repeal of the legislation. A staffer from the Education subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources--where both senate bills are being held--said that while there was some support for the measures, there was only "a limited possibility" that the bills would pass. Any possible legislation would be subject to a probable President...