Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...
...foreign creditors that it would not make $446 million in payments on principal due in January, but denied that this amounted to a moratorium. Argentina, too, was in the headlines: about five months behind in interest payments on its debt of more than $40 billion, it encountered a delay in securing a crucial $1.1 billion bailout loan from international banks...
Classes resume, but the summertime renovations of the undergraduate Houses are again nowhere near completion. Housing Director Thomas A. Dingman '67, under attack for the delay, suggests that Bulgarian terrorists may have been responsible for the construction mishaps...
...Helms, the gas levy was a tax-and-spend heresy. Aided by his North Carolina colleague John East and two obscure Republican freshmen, Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, Helms tried to talk the bill to death. The willful clique was able to delay a final roll call until Thursday, two days before Christmas, hoping that by then enough members would have gone home to prevent the Senate from mustering a quorum...
...nearly 4% after inflation. Since then, the gray realities of recession have taken their toll. Defense Minister Charles Hernu, relying on a government decree, hacked a total of $2.5 billion from the current $17.1 billion military budget and from future procurement. The move will, among other things, delay by a year the delivery of the air force's first 25 Mirage 2000 combat planes...