Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall, but the Law Faculty put a hold on implementation when it decided in March that the plan was not "consistent with the basic values of the Law School community." The Review staff later put an end to the controversy when it agreed with the faculty's desire to delay implementation, having effected from the law professors an endorsement of the idea of heterogeneity in the Review's membership...
...faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
During the early days of April, 1978, 2400 angry students signed a petition calling on the Faculty to delay a final vote on the Core Curriculum. Joining proctors and members of the Faculty, the students said Dean Rosovsky's proposed "revitalization" of undergraduate education would prevent any flexibility in their selection of courses in an attempt to create the definitive "renaissance man." One irate professor went so far as to call the implementation of any new program a presupposition that Harvard was not "doing right" by its students already...
...latest charges stem from "Operation Pendorf," an FBI investigation into labor racketeering. According to the indictment handed down by a Chicago federal grand jury, Williams, Chicago Insurance Broker Allen Dorfman and three others told Cannon that if he would delay consideration of a bill designed to deregulate trucking rates and routes, he would be allowed to buy some valuable Nevada property owned by the Teamsters pension fund. The deal never came off. Cannon voted for a weakened version of the trucking deregulation bill, which passed. The Justice Department has told the Senator that he will not be indicted...
Even so, many people delay in seeking medical help. The consequences can be fateful. More than half of the 550,000 Americans who die of heart attacks each year succumb before they reach a hospital. In a study of coronary patients at the University of Rochester, cardiologists found that the average interval between the onset of symptoms and hospitalization was 3½ hours, yet some 80% of these patients had experienced severe chest pains from the start. At least one reason for this hesitation is a belief that a heart attack always results in total incapacitation...