Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bonus that workers over 65 get for delaying their retirement, which is now 3% of benefits for each year's delay, will gradually increase to 8% between 1990 and 2008. The maximum delay is five years...
...blessing in disguise for us," DiCesare says of the delay. "We're pretty worn...
...President himself led the charge. In a concentrated campaign lasting more than a month, he sought to justify his proposed increase of 10.7% in military spending for fiscal 1984. Republicans in the Senate had agreed to delay considering the budget while he pressed his case on TV, on the road and in private. Some hoped that Reagan would carry the day by rallying voter support for the full range of military needs he endorses. Others hoped he would see the need to modify his stance. In the end he failed to do either. His public crusade backfired badly...
...states, officials from the United Nations last week agreed to oversee the cease-fire and repair work on the wells. But at the Kuwait meeting, efforts to negotiate the details of an accord stalled amid endless bickering. Iraq insisted that any cease-fire agreement prevent Iran from using the delay to rearm. In turn, the Iranians charged that the Iraqis secretly hope to turn any temporary cease-fire into a formal end to the war. Iran also demanded that Iraq admit culpability for the March attack on the oil wells. Iraq refused, arguing that the bombing had been an accident...
...fact, both Iran and Iraq have reasons for exacerbating the disaster. Iraq hopes that a delay will increase the pressure on Arab countries to call for a broader cease-fire in the war that Iraq started in 1980 and that it is now eager to end. Iran, on the other hand, may expect the deteriorating environment to help split Iraq from Saudi Arabia and the smaller gulf states, which have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the Iraqi war effort. If such hopes are being nurtured in the Iranian capital of Tehran, they are unrealistic. Both sides...