Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today. The reason was (and partially still is) the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research, a set of regulations that in the U.S. prevented timely research on the cloning of human DNA for the purpose of making interferon efficiently and cheaply. These regulations still discourage and delay research on and production of future lifesaving medical products because of unfounded and silly fears of hypothetical and highly unlikely scenarios. It is high time to declare a moratorium on the N.I.H. guidelines...
...would the Soviets sit still for such a delay? Time is running out on the protocol limiting American cruise missiles that accompanies the SALT II Treaty. The protocol expires at the end of 1981, four years before the treaty itself. When Leonid Brezhnev signed SALT II at the Vienna summit last June, he was assuming that it would be ratified before the end of 1979. That would have left two years for the superpowers to negotiate permanent constraints on cruise missiles in the next round of negotiations, SALT...
...discussed in the Attorney General's office, but that "I don't think a decision on a matter of this kind should come from the Attorney General's office. I think he should get it from somewhere else-completely unofficial channels." Liddy seethed, since that would delay a decision...
...minute rain delay halted proceedings after seven frames, and when play resumed Tom Burgmeier had replaced Eckersley. The southpaw held the Bengals scoreless the rest of the way and recorded the save...
...There ain't nothing to do during a rain delay...