Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...private life older people wouldn't think of sticking their children with the bills for their indulgences. Yet the elderly support proposals to delay or eliminate the tax cut that mainly helps younger citizens. In the 1960s, youngsters were called the "me" generation. Their parents are now trying to take over that title...
...economic slump since the 1930s, one marked by heavy unemployment almost everywhere and in most countries (though no longer in the U.S.) by rapid inflation as well. All parties agree that in the interdependent world economy, the major trading nations should keep their economic policies from clashing lest they delay recovery or even make the downturn worse. But preliminary discussions among the diplomatic aides who prepared the way for the summitteers turned up sharp variances as to how economic strategies should be coordinated...
...East. Italy has openly defended the Camp David agreements. But Camp David cannot be only a separate peace between Egypt and Israel, postponing a response to the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people. Time is not on the side of peace in that area. Peace must be promoted without delay and with vigor along the line strongly supported in the Inter-Parliamentary Union [an association of parliamentarians from around the world]: reciprocal and simultaneous recognition between the state of Israel and Palestinian representatives. Anyone who objects to Palestinian representatives may one day find it impossible to have a dialogue with...
...pass. If so, they will eventually have to be reconciled with a budget resolution passed by the Republican-controlled Senate two weeks ago. At very best, the nation will be kept waiting for weeks to see if anything can get by both chambers. The prolonged uncertainty will probably further delay any major drop in interest rates; that in turn could hold back any recovery from the present severe recession. If no budget passes, Congress will have to fund the Government either by a series of "continuing resolutions" or by passing spending and tax bills piecemeal, with no overall plan. Either...
...group, assembled by Peter G. Peterson, who was Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon Administration, proposed a one-year freeze on Social Security and other entitlement benefits, a $25 billion cut in defense outlays by fiscal 1985, new taxes on oil, gasoline and natural gas, and possibly even a delay or reduction of the 10% income tax cut scheduled for 1983. Warned the six: "With each week of delay, the problem is getting worse - and harder to solve." Delay, however, is about all that Congress has produced...