Word: delay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite a ten-minute delay to upright the boat, the literal lightweights finished with the help of their overweight coxswain, captain Kevin Gaut, who had earlier stroked the varsity vessel to victory...
...letter, drafted by Harvard dining hall shop stewards, alleges that Powers has tried to delay negotiations. The tactics listed include failing to offer a counterproposal to the union's demands, breaking off the initial sessions, and not contacting Local 26 to set a date for resuming bargaining procedures...
...Cambridge City Council last night tabled a controversial proposal to rezone the Alewife industrial section of the city to attract more business, a move officials said will delay the rezoning for at least a month...
...that I want to kill this proposal--I just want time to hone it, to smooth it out, to refine it," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said yesterday. "A delay of 30 to 60 days is not going to substantially change the development prospects for this area," he added...
...Sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld demonstrated in his studies of voting behavior that conflict breeds delay in a voter's making up his or her mind. What we are witnessing now in the ups and downs of public opinion poll data is irresolution bred by strong conflict. Its presence means that many voters are going to wait until the last minute to decide. Every electoral race in this campaign, from the primaries to the main bout, is likely to be a cliffhanger, with the opinion polls unable to predict the outcome much in advance of the event...