Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Harvard's next goal, Code's second red lighter six and a half minutes later, tennis halls were again thrown at Eliot, despite the impassioned pleas of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary to stop Cleary feared a delay of game penalty would be called on the Crimson, going Cornell a chance to get back in the game Luckily, all that referee Pierre Belanger handed out was a warning...
...role of colleges to monitor compliance with registration a duty that is reminiscent of previous misguided links between higher education and the Selective Service System Besides, college admissions and financial and offices should not have to deal with paperwork the regulation may require. in some cases. such paperwork could delay needed funds for registrants as they await confirmation from the government...
Reagan's weapon for holding down spending is the misnamed freeze. It has three main parts: 1) a one-year delay in pay raises for military and civilian employees of the Federal Government and in pension increases for their retired predecessors; 2) a six-month hold on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security benefits; in Supplemental Security Income for the needy blind, elderly and disabled; in railroad retirement and veterans' pensions and in food stamps and child-nutrition programs; 3) a recommendation that Congress hold spending for many other programs close to 1983 dollar totals...
...Hastening into court, the Planned Parenthood Federation, the American Civil Liberties Union and New York State, among others, contended that this threatened invasion of privacy violates the U.S. Constitution and a 1981 law funding such clinics. A federal judge, perhaps as early as this week, will decide whether to delay imposition of the rule while the issues are argued...
...Navy allowed only four days for filming. Rented Navy destroyers were wired with simulated explosives, set to go off in a chain reaction. By mistake a jittery technician fired them before the cameras were ready to role. It took 35 people to rig them up again. A similar delay occurred during filming at Aaron Jastrow's Tuscan villa, which had been chosen because of its faded golden hues, the result of years of weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud to have her house on TV, however, that before the production crew arrived she had it painted...