Word: delay
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...measures anyway. Botha, however, cannot prevent Hendrickse from blocking another proposal -- the postponement of elections from 1989 to 1992. Shocked by the strong showing of the far-right Conservative Party in last year's balloting and alarmed that his party might lose control of the government, Botha wants to delay next year's vote. But the deferral must be approved by all three houses. Hendrickse says he will pass the measure only if Botha will agree to repeal, not just amend, the Group Areas Act. As Hendrickse told Botha, "If you continue fiddling with the Group Areas Act without making...
Brady said she supported a plan to delay delivery of guns by seven days to allow authorities to check the purchaser's background and to discourage impulsive crime...
Indeed, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega suggested this last month when he said that the Sandinistas would never cede their political hegemony. As Robert Leiken, currently a visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs has written, Ortega's "strategy is clear... he will delay lifting the state of emergency and granting broad amnesty and the other democratic reforms stipulated in the Guatemalan accords until the contras have been disbanded and defunded." Others have echoed Leiken's fears that the Sandinistas are cynically using the peace process to squash internal resistance to their regime...
Planning Board Chair Paul Dietrich defended the board's delay, saying members simply "need more data to make a decision." Others, including Gifford, say they may be passing the buck to a state agency...
...Sullinvan, Kentala). Penalties--H. Hartje (hooking) :39; BU, Regan (roughing) 4:09; H. Pawloski (roughing 4:09; BU, Shaunessy (roughing) 8:58; BU. Doin (roughing) 8:58; H. Donato (roughing) 8:58 H. Young (roughing 8:58; H. Hartje (holding) 9:50; H. Hartje (tripping) 14:29, BU, Lappin (delay fo game) 16:15; H. Janfaza (delay of game...