Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--The Reagan administration has asked Congress to delay paying the federal share of a $4.5 million settlement that would end a century-old land dispute with Wampanoag Indians living on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard...
Attorney General Edwin Meese III offered yesterday to impose a moratorium on the return of Cubans denied residency because of mental instability or past crimes. The offer to review each case individually had been relayed to both prisons in expectation that all hostages "will be safely released without delay," Meese said in Washington...
This week the group may feel more pressure, since the deadline arrives Friday. Congress could seek an extension of the Gramm-Rudman date, but that would be risky unless the group produces a compromise plan beforehand. Reason: the delay might send a strong signal to the financial markets that Washington is truly incapable of making tough decisions...
...final report was to have been issued today, but last-minute checking of nearly 1000 footnotes will delay release of the report until tomorrow, members of the committees said...
Ginsburg also garnered unfavorable publicity over his role as chief of regulatory policy at the White House's Office of Management and Budget in 1985. He helped delay asbestos regulations that were deemed too costly for the number of lives saved. Michigan Democratic Congressman John Dingell accused Ginsburg of destroying drafts of a letter on Government antitrust policy while he was at the Justice Department. Ginsburg countered that the drafts were prepared by his staff without his approval. Without the admission that he had smoked marijuana, it is unlikely that these minor accusations would have derailed Ginsburg's nomination...