Word: delay
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...quality control, the reindustrialization of the American auto industry has begun. Moreover, Detroit's experience provides many lessons for other sectors of U.S. business. The most obvious is the need to avoid such industrial decline. A generation of neglect has sapped Detroit's competitive strength, and further delay would have put it in graver peril. Only the huge capital investment now being made has given American automakers the chance to survive...
Redden's delay was typical of the problems of transporting the U.S.'s largest potential source of energy. While experts predict that America's vast coal reserves could become a major alternative to OPEC oil and an important export product, the use of coal is being thwarted by the U.S.'s inadequate and outdated system of transporting the valuable black rock...
Though suspicious of the Sandinistas' ultimate goals, the Carter Administration has sought to keep them on the road of moderate reform with the promise of some $156.6 million in financial aid. That intended show of support, however, has been diluted by an embarrassing delay in passing an initial appropriation for the paltry sum of $75 million. Thus the new government has consolidated its power with no substantial material help from the U.S. Says one State Department official: "We missed a great opportunity to increase our influence...
Meanwhile, prompted by Billy's new inconsistencies, the Justice Department stepped up its own investigation. Lisker noted that all the major facts were now out in the open regarding the department's investigation of Billy's delay in registering as a Libyan agent. But Lisker warned that "there are other matters, unrelated to Billy's registration statement, but involving some of the same people," that are going to be probed. One area of investigation could be the contacts the department had with the White House over Billy and Libya. An other could be a search...
Huge infusions of foreign aid will also be necessary to fund the government's ten-year $2.5 billion reconstruction plan. The Carter Administration has offered $156.6 million, including a $75 million package pledged last November but appropriated by Congress only a month ago. The embarrassing seven-month delay was due to a protracted debate led by Republican Congressman Robert Bauman of Maryland, who railed against aiding a Marxist-leaning government. The modest amount of the U.S. package, moreover, was hardly an impressive show of support from so wealthy a nation, as Castro was able to point...