Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only 25 per cent of scheduled classes met yesterday and Tuesday at the University of Massachusetts-Boston as 150 striking faculty, staff and students picketed administrative offices Tuesday in protest of the six-month delay in faculty contract negotiations...
Deborah Holmes, a junior and spokesman for the Student Strike Committee, said the delay in contract settlement is an effort to reduce faculty participation at the State Board of Regents meeting on March 1, 1981, when officials will discuss reorganizing the state colleges in the Boston area...
...bubble and, in the eight months between the shooting of the expansively evil J.R. (Larry Hagman) and the revelation Friday night, somehow kept it from bursting. Nothing could cure the Dallasmania that infects 300 million viewers in 57 countries-not six months of reruns, not another seven weeks' delay in the fall premiere because of the actors' strike, not three penultimate episodes of red herrings, white knuckles and blue-blooded angst. The people in the know-about 40 executives of Lorimar, which produces Dallas, and CBS, which broadcasts it each week-performed like a choir of Deep Throats...
...shown no inclination to bail out the Poles. A Polish default on foreign loans might give Moscow an excuse to tighten its hold on the economy or, at worst, grab direct power in Warsaw. don't go bankrupt," as Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston once said. But they can delay or, as in the case of Iran, freeze payment on foreign debts, even though such moves endanger the profitability and, eventually, the stability of financial institutions. With debts of all borrowing countries to foreign banks now totaling $600 billion, the Polish crisis has raised new fears about the ability...
Sadat, the foreign leader who was most disappointed by Carter's defeat, is resigned to a lengthy delay in the negotiations. One inducement to Egyptian patience is the prospect that elections next year in Israel may bring in a new and more flexible government headed by the Labor Party. Earlier this month, Israeli Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban and former Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev visited Cairo to take part in a symposium on the Palestinian problem sponsored by the Egyptian magazine October. Sadat took the opportunity to meet with the Israelis...