Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomber, for example, was proposed as a small, low-cost aircraft to complement the $36 million F14. Congress bought the notion in 1975, after being told that each plane would eventually cost about $16 million. They are now priced at $32 million each. Much of the added cost and delay is due to improvements made in the Star Wars radar and guided missile control system designed to allow the plane to attack the enemy in darkness and bad weather. Critics question the value of such sophisticated radar, leaving aside its cost, because its use can alert the enemy and spoil...
...reluctant to endanger their crucial commercial interests at a time when Washington's official posture on American companies involved in the pipeline is, to say the least, ambiguous. President Reagan has already barred U.S. companies from any direct involvement in the pipeline. That will almost certainly result in delay of the project. But the Administration has hesitated to turn the screws even further by blocking the export of technology, intended for the pipeline, that has already been licensed by U.S. companies for production by European firms. Reason: any attempt by the U.S. to cut off those agreements retroactively would...
...many women pregnant? Is it some side effect of jogging? Microwave ovens? One of the answers is demography. The 37 million-strong cohort of baby boom women is now 25 to 35 years old. As a group, these women marry later than their mothers and delay having children until their education is completed and their careers are established. Many are giving birth to long-postponed babies...
...that 45-minute delay was enough. While the UPenn team remained in the locker room warming up, the Harvard team stood on the strip. "It was a tragedy," Marshall said. "It affected the team psychologically and certainly ruined the meet for Harvard...
...that the Lions couldn't even put up a fight... Palm had to take two time outs before the start of the third game as he tried to write down the numbers of the reserve-packed lineup he sent out to start. The time outs cost him, when a delay in a Harvard substitution forced the Crimson to call a time out it didn't have, and the referee awarded a point to New Jersey...