Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various job-training programs, for example. Critics charged that Carter was craftily withholding a detailed list of programs to be canceled or trimmed for fear that it would cost him votes in the key primaries in Illinois last week and New York this week. Ted Kennedy called the delay in recommending specific cuts "one of the most cynical aspects of the campaign." Press Secretary Jody Powell replied, "That allegation just won't hold water with anyone familiar with the budget process...
...Shah's flight, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh accused former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller of trying to sneak the Shah out of Panama so he could escape extradition. That would have "a disastrous effect in Iran," he said, and would delay the freeing of the hostages...
...Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Henry Ford II greeted the verdict as "great, good news." The trial was, in fact, one of several legal actions that apparently had induced him to delay his retirement beyond last Oct. 1, when he would have preferred to leave. Earlier this year, for instance, the Justice Department informed the automaker that it had dropped an investigation into alleged bribery in 1975 of officials in Indonesia...
...political benefits of espousing a balanced budget, does not have the self-discipline to disclose where most of the cuts will fall until after primaries in the urban centers of Illinois and New York. Inflation adviser Alfred Kahn implicitly admitted as much in his response to questions about the delay: "I'm not privy to political decisions made at the White House...
...other members of the Security Council to delete the paragraph on religious freedom. In telephone talks with Vance, McHenry was advised to seek a postponement of the vote until Saturday, which would provide more time to get Carter's approval of an affirmative U.S. stand. McHenry got the delay...