Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until two weeks ago, the school committees of Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, and Beverly had decided not to comply with the prayer law. At a February 5th meeting the Cambridge committee decided to delay making a decision on whether to comply with the law, ignoring the February 5th effective date of the law pending the results of litigation...
...delay occurred because a computer failure made it necessary for all student bills to be rerun, Lynn Zekis, acting business manager at New England Telephone's Cambridge office said Friday...
...ship the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land to conquer the infidel. An army of some 35,000 men, including hairy Prankish thugs as well as idealistic Catholic knights, assembled on the Lido, but no ships appeared; the Venetians wanted more money for the transport job. After months of delay and misery, the deal was made: as part of the fare, the Crusaders agreed to make a detour on their way to Palestine to seize Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, so that Venice could plunder...
...dozens arrested, the government charged eight with sedition, a crime which carries a sentence of seven years in prison to death. The eight have remained in custody since their arrests, while the government has postponed their trial several times. The latest delay occurred last week, after authorities allowed the dissidents to see relatives for the first time since their imprisonment...
School officials reacted angrily to the delay and predicted that if the money is not gratned, the city's schools will be forced to make "massive layoffs...