Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials said rain would delay the loading of fuel into the craft, which was scheduled to blast off at 7:30 a.m. today...
...just how much the huge deficits should be feared. The view that seems to be winning is that the Administration should concentrate on holding down deficits by plugging for what are euphemistically called "revenue-enhancement measures" or, in plain English, tax increases. Reagan has ruled out any reduction or delay in the 25%, three-year cut in income tax rates that he bulled through Congress last summer. Thus his aides are floating ideas for raising other taxes: excise (sales) taxes on liquor, tobacco and gasoline, and taxes on some specific types of business transactions...
Union President Robert Poli vowed that his union would appeal the decision to the federal courts. "We are still PATCO," he declared. "We are still proud." A federal court in Washington agreed to hear the case this week and has granted PATCO a temporary delay of the ruling. But some of Poll's members are pessimistic. Robert Westra, a former controller at Chicago's O'Hare Airport who is now trying to support himself as a carpenter, pronounced the decision "incredible." He saw only "a 5% hope" that he will be able to return to work. That...
...Geneva would demonstrate a definite intention to pursue better relations. But we absolutely cannot accept the concept of using negotiations to buy time in order to proceed with deployment [of the new medium-range missiles] while all sorts of pretexts are invented to blame the Soviet side [for the delay]. The U.S. should take a very unprejudiced look at relations with us without attempting to stick labels on us all the time. We've got to find a way of getting back to negotiations. We want to negotiate, not because we are weak, but because our leaders know that...
...Minister George Rallis, fell from 172 seats to 115. Andreas, as the fiery winner is customarily called by his countrymen, was exuberant. "Change is necessary for the survival of the Greek nation," he declared in a victory speech. "We will make change tangible; it will show its face without delay...