Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little appeal in further increasing a tax whose burden falls most heavily on low-income workers, while the well off escape Social Security taxes on a portion of their earnings and are having their income taxes cut. There is justified concern too that another payroll-tax boost could further delay the economic recovery that would help Social Security more than anything...
...conserve cash. Among the suggestions: a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security pension benefits and many other federal programs, an idea first put forward in February by Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings of South Carolina, which would save $11.3 billion; and a three-month delay in the COLA that might be paid in July 1983 (estimated savings: $3.3 billion at an 8% inflation rate), a plan advanced by Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in an unsuccessful attempt to keep budget-compromise negotiations between Reagan and congressional leaders from breaking down at the end of April...
...open-minded on arms negotiations reflects the divergent concerns of the three audiences- in the U.S., Western Europe and the Kremlin-to which his message was addressed. Despite their differences, those listeners appeared to share one basic and important reaction: relief that the Administration, after 16 months of delay and internal dissent, had come forth with a plan to get the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back to the strategic arms bargaining table. The only group that expressed dismay at the President's intentions were some hard-line U.S. conservatives, who feel betrayed by Reagan's more moderate approach...
Clemson, whose football team finished atop the wire polls last season, got a letter from the NCAA on March 29 stating that a number of allegations of rule violations had been substantiated. Why, then, hasn't Clemson been sentenced yet? According to one Atlantic Coast Conference official the delay is probably the result of a big television deal that the NCAA has negotiated for the Clemson-Georgia game slated to open next fall's football season...
...review the administration and composition of the rent board." The members face "difficult issues under hostile conditions created by the length of time that is required to complete the procedure," Healy says. "Whoever the petitioning party is, then fuse is likely to be a little short from the delay by the time they reach the board...