Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Iranians were kind and helpful with small favors, such as fetching books and clothes for the captives. Others liked to harass them; one tactic was to ignore their knocks on their doors to delay them from going to the bathroom or getting something they needed. The tougher captors, including a fellow called "Old Stoneface" by the hostages, "were on a real ego trip," says Queen. "This was the big moment of their lives." Queen was blindfolded whenever he left his room, and except for his roommates, he was not allowed to speak to other hostages...
Most military experts expect that France will proceed with production of the neutron bomb, if only because a long delay might appear as backing down under Soviet disapproval. For once, if he proceeds, Giscard will have the backing of both his West German and U.S. allies. Pentagon sources feel that, if Western Europeans accept a French decision to make a neutron warhead, allied governments might be more willing eventually to accept the U.S. equivalent on their soil...
...Alaska. Nobody stopped it or interfered. But now that there is discussion about private industry's undertaking the job, there are all kinds of noises about the need for environmental impact statements. We do need Government control, but not this laborious paperwork and red tape that cause such delay...
University officials and MATEP lawyers declined to say how much money the two-month delay will tack on to the cost of the plant...
Last week the chemical that made that happy event possible got formal approval from the Food and Drug Administration for widespread use by expectant women. Calling it "the first safe and effective drug approved to treat premature labor," the federal agency said that ritodrine could help delay a sizable portion of the 300,000 live births a year that occur prematurely (any time before the 36th week of pregnancy...