Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although formal approval from the Faculty is not required for President Bok and Dean Rosovsky to implement the Gomes proposal, this week's contentious meeting will probably delay a decision. Rosovsky said he will send the proposal back to the Faculty Council, where it has already been debated...
When the piscine onslaught continued during play, referee Pierre Belanger took measures to control the crowd, punishing the Big Red with a two-minute minor for delay of game...
...budget cuts is the breadth. The President is asking Congress to reduce future spending for no fewer than 83 programs that benefit workers, businessmen, farmers, students, artists, the elderly, the sick, the poor, passengers on airplanes, trains, subways, buses-just about everybody. He would lower federal support for museums, delay some space-exploration projects, reduce postal subsidies possibly enough to force cancellation of Saturday mail deliveries. He would give states and cities far more authority to decide how to use money sent from Washington for education and health purposes. Yacht owners would have to pay more to use waterways...
...argue that the Reagan Administration's emphasis on military assistance to threatened pro-Western regimes, if done at the expense of aid to neutral developing nations, could eventually hurt the U.S. economically. Warns Douglas J. Bennet Jr., outgoing administrator of the Agency for International Development: "The longer we delay the development of Third World countries, the smaller the markets will be and the less successful we will be in competing...
...shot televised extravaganza and the rapid-fire selections of John F. Kennedy '40. Christopher C. DeMuth '64, lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, who worked both on Nixon's transition and on Reagan's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, attributes much of the delay this time around to strict conflict-of-interest requirements for prospective appointees and to attempts to find suitable candidates who could satisfy political constituencies or obligations, such as naming minorities and women. Efforts to keep the selection process secret met with little success, as informed and uninformed speculation hovered over every...