Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to postponing the full festivities,the delay in construction has caused somecongestion in North House. North House's grill,library and house offices are not yet usable and39 North House students are living inHarvard-owned apartments until the renovations ontheir rooms on the fourth floor of Comstock Hallare completed...
Much of the student-run corporation's business comes from walk-in workers who start immediately. The new law will delay these employees and hinder this side of the business...
Much of the student-run corporation's business comes from walk-in workers who start immediately. The new law will delay these employees and hinder this side of the business...
...ineptitude also cuts deeply. In the past few months, Aquino's supporters have tried to rouse the President into taking firm action on a wide range of issues, including land reform, the Communist insurgency and the regulation of foreign investment. In almost all cases, Aquino has chosen to delay decisions, pass on responsibility to Congress or simply ignore the problems. The President has been faulted even by friends for reacting to crises by "praying and delaying." Of her survival, she said last week rather fatalistically, "If the country needs me, God will spare...
...next door to a very powerful and complex country." The pact must still be ratified by Sri Lanka's Parliament, currently in recess. Dissanayake predicts that Jayewardene's majority United National Party will support the pact. Just to be sure, the canny President was said to be considering a delay in the recall of Parliament until at least mid-September. That would allow inflamed passions on the balmy island to cool further, and thereby give peace, Sri Lankan-style, a better chance...