Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University officials don't like to talk about the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). The story of the power plant is one of interminable delay, confusing environmental issues, strained community relations and page upon page of complicated and very dull data. But the bottom line is very simple: what once seemed like a great idea has gradually become an administrative and financial disaster...
...produce the bulk of that electricity. Community groups in the Misison Hill and Brookline area have argued that the plant's diesels will spew dangerous nitrous oxides and carcinogens into their backyards. A series of state agency recommendations and rulings handed down this year have done nothing but further delay a project that is already several years late...
...beginning of the year, when one state official recommended that the power plant be allowed to install its diesels, things were looking good. But prospects for the diesels continued to slide downhill as one delay after another tacked $50 million more on the price of the plant. Finally, last week, the deputy commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) handed down yet another ruling against the Harvard-backed proposal...
According to British sources, tough sanctions at this moment could jeopardize fragile talks that are now under way between the West Europeans and top Iranian officials. British Ambassador Sir John Graham last week was asked by Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr to try to delay a Common Market decision on sanctions in order to give Iran's so-called moderates more time to work for the hostages' release. The trouble with this is that Tehran has repeatedly won postponements of threatened U.S. retaliatory measures by claiming that Iranian moderates needed more time, but after each postponement, the moderates could...
...male cadet confides. He is not alone in that opinion, though a report on the Academy puts the matter more formally. "Oversensitivity to the presence of women at West Point on the part of the staff and faculty has been disruptive, serving to alienate the men, foster separatism, and delay the complete integration of the Corps of Cadets." "It's the most traumatic thing that's happened since they took away the horses," says one unhappy grad...