Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end Reagan finally bowed to congressional realities. He announced that he was willing to delay indefinitely any final decision on how to deploy the MX. Meanwhile, he argued, the Senate should approve production funds for the MX, and the House should reconsider its rejection of those funds so that no time is lost in the missile's possible deployment. Said he: "I welcome a vigorous debate on the best way to base the missile...
...reinstating prayer in public schools, ending the busing of students to desegregate schools-into real legislation, he has appointed himself as a special Senate watchdog on presidential nominations, one who is ever on the alert for signs of ideological deviation. Early in the Reagan Administration, Helms was able to delay confirmation of a few State Department officials whom he considered squishy-soft on Communism. But once the White House pushed a bit, Reagan and the Senate rolled right over the Senator's opposition. "Helms is considered a paper tiger on the Hill," scoffs one Administration official...
...even the U.S. has not done. White House officials seem increasingly convinced that Israel is deliberately imposing impossible conditions in order to prevent the talks from beginning. This, in turn, would postpone consideration of Reagan's broader plan, which the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin opposes. Any delay in addressing Reagan's Sept. 1 plan would also enable Israel to proceed with the expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank, thereby gradually making any form of Palestinian sovereignty more difficult to accept...
Disagreements over balloting procedures in two Houses may delay the results of campus-wide referenda on the nuclear freeze and on Harvard investments in South Africa...
...delay in naming a new President could have been a sign that a Kremlin power struggle was still in progress, but the prevailing view in Moscow was that after moving so smoothly to take control of the party, Andropov thought it more prudent to hold back from assuming the post that Brezhnev himself had waited 13 years to take. Indeed, caution seemed to be the watchword for the Soviets' new leader. Andropov had been expected to put his own stamp on the party hierarchy almost immediately, but he made only two important appointments last week. In his first major...