Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 14% above the current fiscal year) and wrongly focused. Hawks and doves joined in the worry that scrapping the pay increase would endanger the ability of the military forces to persuade skilled people to reenlist. They contended that the Administration might do better to cancel or delay some expensive weapons-buying programs. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not consulted on the reductions, took that line. Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Gabriel grumbled to reporters that the Chiefs would prefer to buy fewer weapons rather than cancel the pay boost...
...into Social Security at a rate of 9.35%, only three-fourths the total assessed for employer and employee combined, will pay the full rate. This will net $18 billion. The self-employed, however, will get an income tax credit. On the benefits side, the commission agreed to delay until Jan. 1, 1984, the cost of living increase scheduled for July 1, 1983, a change that will save the system about $40 billion...
...statistical category-freeway traffic violence: 1) Driver flashes high-beam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches' worth. 2) Dump-truck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying driver of 18-wheel truck deliberately rear-ends car whose driver was trying to stay within 55 m.p.h. limit. The Houston Freeway Syndrome has fortunately not spread everywhere. But the question is: Will...
Earlier in the day, in a fit of self-dramatization, they had arranged for two friends to show up at midnight at the Gate on Mass Ave and look for them in the third-level window. Because of the delay in the men's room, Jack and Jill barely made it to Carrel # 232 in time. The original contacts had brought along three more, and the entire group was waving and jumping up and down and pointing. But just as Jack and Jill flipped on the individual carrel light to improve the view, a woman walked through the Mass...
Things ended fast. At 7 a.m., doors seemed to open everywhere, and at least 30 janitors swooped in upstairs and started turning on lights, moving downward. "We're going to get squeezed out," Jill told Jack. "We'd better get down to D and delay it as long as possible...