Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty Council this week decided to delay until next fall discussion of a controversial issue. Council members once again found pervasive wording problems in a proposal that would have required Faculty members with potentially serious conflicts of interest between academic and outside work to report them to the University. The proposal--drawn up by the Committee on Research Policy (CRP)--first came before the council last winter and was debated three times before Dean Rosovsky recommended tabling the issue. The CRP proposal, part of the Faculty's attempt to develop guidelines governing professors' outside work, would amend a 15-year...
Strassels is not alone in advising people to avoid filing early unless they have a refund coming. The new Dictionary of 1040 Deductions, which is published by Mathew Bender & Co., also suggests that taxpayers delay their returns until near or on the due date. Says Bender Tax Lawyer Michael Buxbaum: "This is a matter of statistics, not law. Last-minute filing is advantageous, but whether it helps one or two people or a few hundred thousand we really don't know...
...some 35 minutes after the Secret Service had learned that Reagan had been shot, the White House finally informed the press of the injury. That delay, and others that followed, contributed to a sense of confusion as television networks, breaking off regular programming, struggled to sift fact from rumor...
...need only a simple majority to become law. Majority Leader Howard Baker said last week that Senate Republicans had agreed to postpone until 1982 debate on such "emotional" issues as abortion and school prayer. But Helms immediately suggested he might not be willing to go along with such a delay. Some Administration lobbyists are convinced that a form of the Helms-Hyde bill is virtually certain of passage if it reaches the floors of the two houses. The chances of getting it to the floor of the Senate, where Republicans control the Judiciary Committee, are better than for getting...
...past 35 years, every advance in weaponry by the U.S. has caused the Soviet Union to follow suit. Then the hawks cry, "They are trying to pass us! More arms!" So the peril of annihilation escalates and security diminishes. We should be negotiating disarmament, not finding excuses for further delay...