Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of calculating this year's property tax bills has already been delayed several months and some challengers have charged council incumbents with intentionally postponing the release of property tax bills until after the elections. Others, such as CCA endorsed candidate Wendy Abt, maintain that the delay costs the city thousands of dollars per day, and is an example of poor management on the part of the city council...
...Domenici estimated last week that the deficit in fiscal 1982 could total $60 billion, vs. an Administration forecast of $43 billion, and could be $70 billion in fiscal 1984, the year in which Reagan has pledged to balance the budget. Red ink on anything like that scale could both delay recovery from recession, because Government borrowing to cover the deficits would keep interest rates high, and contribute to still more inflation...
...energy program is in France, where 22 reactors now produce more than 30% of the country's electric power, the highest percentage in the world. During last spring's presidential campaign, Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand dismissed nuclear power as "costly and uncertain" and promised to delay nine proposed plants. But as President, Mitterrand has curbed his antinuclear rhetoric and now plans to halt only three of the plants. Reason: his government is counting on the energy provided by nuclear reactors to help fuel an ambitious program of economic revival...
When the economy turns sour, small businesses are the first to feel it. Customers delay payments for months on end, while suppliers turn around and demand cash on delivery. At the same time lenders, such as local and regional commercial banks and finance companies, demand rates of two, three, and five points above the prime, and sometimes just turn off the money spigot altogether...
...rent board yesterday postponed a hearing--scheduled, after four months of delay, for October 28--on the University's request for a set of removal permits required before rent-controlled apartments may be converted to any other...