Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, Tory insiders cite two errors that brought Clark's government to its unexpectedly early demise. Explains one Tory: "We took far too long to get our act together." Elected in May, Clark did not summon Parliament until October, the biggest such delay by a newly elected government in Canadian history. Clark sensibly wanted to give his new ministers time to learn their way around the unfamiliar corridors of power, since the Tories had not been in office since 1963. But by the time Parliament met, the Tories were already plummeting in the polls...
...disc from the spinal column (1934). So important are the literate, well-edited and often controversial articles that hardly a week goes by without some mention of the magazine in the press. Now the Journal itself has become news, a target for reporters who charge that its editorial policies delay the revelation of medical developments to the public...
...month ordeal of the 50 American hostages in Tehran might be in sight. The State Department denied a Kuwaiti newspaper report that the release of the hostages was "imminent," but one Western diplomat in Tehran cautiously admitted that there were some "positive signs." In response, the U.S. announced a delay in the imposition of economic sanctions against Iran...
...telling his wife not to leave the palace at Mycenae. Agamemnon's brother and Helen's husband, Menelaus (Tony Church), waylays the messenger and rails at Agamemnon for his vacillating disloyalty to Greece. Achilles (Mike Gwilym) warns that the troops are restive and mutinous after the long delay. Affected by his brother's torment, Menelaus suddenly shifts his adamant position and suggests giving up the entire expedition to Troy. But the fates have decreed otherwise; Iphigenia (Judy Buxton) and Clytemnestra (Janet Suzman) have arrived...
...different religions, how does the teacher decide which should lead the class? If several students lead prayers, will their poers tramp in and out of the room as each faith gets its time in class? Recognizing these and similar problems, the Cambridge school superintendent has rightly decided to delay implementing the law until the courts pass on its constitutionality...