Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before calling Reagan, in his suite on the same floor of the Century Plaza hotel, at 4:24 a.m. Meese said later, "The President was in charge, and if there had been any action he needed to take, he would have been awakened." Reagan saw nothing wrong with the delay. Said he: "If our planes were shot down, yes, they'd wake me up right away. If the other fellows were shot down, why wake...
When the walkout ended, the government first announced that the price of a loaf of bread would quadruple to about 50?, then announced a delay on the move. Trybuna Ludu reported that a meat-rationing program would be "reviewed" and that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled...
During a meeting in Washington on July 20 with Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Neumann reportedly denounced Haig's refusal to say that the Administration's delay in shipping F-16 fighters to Israel was punishment for the Beirut raid. Word of that disloyalty reached the Secretary, and Neumann was called in for a loud dressing down. The next day, Haig met privately with President Reagan and got permission to fire the ambassador. Last week Neumann, who had been in Saudi Arabia for only two months, announced his resignation "for personal reasons...
...delay may in some ways simplify her career plans. Skocpol said, since it will give her several years at Chicago before there is even a chance she will leave...
James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology Department, declined to comment on the delay, but said a review of the department would find it to be "dangerously small, with excellent people and a lack of consensus as to its mission...