Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long last, the lawmakers were ready to end the months of inaction and delay. Argued Hojatolislam Mahallati in backing the bill: "We have let the government start negotiations with a third country and we cannot go against the government." The majority seemed to side with Nabavi when he contended: "We have rubbed America's nose in the dirt. The government wants to get rid of the problem in the next two or three days-either freedom or a trial...
China's leaders have not offered any explanation for the delay in sentencing. They maintain that the decision rests entirely with the 35-member panel of judges that presided over the eight-week-long trial. Yet many Chinese are convinced that the politically explosive verdict is being handled by the highest officials of the Communist Party. Indeed, one member of the court, Anthropologist Fei Xiaotung, left Peking for a visit to Canada last week-a sure sign that the judges' participation was no longer necessary...
...Rescission is the repeal of an appropriation for federal spending. Deferral is the delay in spending already appropriated money...
...investigation could delay the plant's full operation and cost Harvard more money for a project that has already exceeded its original estimate by $180 million...
Farm experts were betting last week that Reagan will delay action on the embargo. The President-elect might well leave it in force at least temporarily as a way of helping to dissuade the Soviets from interfering in Poland. That decision would not please farmers, who continue to protest the boycott on the grounds that such tactics hurt long-run sales because they drive customers like the Soviet Union to other, more reliable suppliers. But few farmers can still contend that the embargo seriously hurts their profits. Indeed, the outlook for the American farmer has seldom seemed brighter. Prices have...