Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later in the first stanza, the Quincy defense and two timely delay-of-game penalties defused a South House threat (that's threat as in second and two at the three), to keep within striking distance...
...Labor Department told the Urban Mass Transit Administration Friday to delay a $30 million stipend to the T because MBTA officials altered the language in the grant contract, possibly qualifying the terms of the grant's certification...
...number of factors could cause a delay. After the Iranian deposits were frozen almost a year ago, many big banks followed the lead of Chase Manhattan and used their Iranian deposits to offset loans made to the late Shah of Iran that had gone into default. More troublesome, though, are the claims by insurance companies, computer software firms, construction outfits, airlines and private individuals against the Iranian funds. Said one New York banker last week: "They were lined up around the block as if to see an X-rated movie...
...named Father of the Year in 1950, but his offspring knew better: "Dad was scary," recalls Son William. Even in robes, Douglas had his failings. Simon says that the great civil libertarian was not truly a hero in the Rosenberg spy case because his last minute effort to delay their executions came only after his five votes not to hear their appeals. Sadly, even in one of the Justice's final acts - the chronicling of his life - the great storyteller has been outdone by a man he scarcely knew, and a New Yorker at that...
...specific weapons, Reagan has criticized Carter's decision to delay production of the neutron bomb and cancel the B-l bomber. Carter contends that the cruise missile has made the B-l obsolete but he has, with some campaign fanfare, suggested that a bomber employing "stealth" radar-baffling technology may be built instead. Both candidates support the new MX missile, although they differ about how the land-based weapon should be deployed...