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Word: delay (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the list, six of the projects are currently "on-hold" for a variety of reasons, but Scott said that these projects will be completed within the next two or three years. One reason for the delay is the University's policy of holding off abestosclean-up projects in buildings slated forrenovation until the scheduled repair work begins,Scott said...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Administration to Spend $1M to Remove Asbestos | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geotz Trial Opens Today in New York | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...judge: "Departures shouldn't occur that often." When they do, he adds, the reasons that judges give "will be analyzed, and the guidelines will be refined." The new system is scheduled to go into effect in November, but the commission, which is a permanent body, has recommended that Congress delay implementation until August 1988 in order to let judges try out the guidelines on a voluntary basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Sentences by the Book | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...open domestic semiconductor markets were the last straw. For one thing, the ink on the semiconductor agreement was barely dry before, in Washington's view, it was being ignored. For another, that Japanese behavior seemed to U.S. officials to be part of a familiar Japanese attitude toward trade issues: delay followed by nominal agreement followed by intransigence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade Face-Off: A dangerous U.S.-Japan confrontation | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...system similar to the easy-to-use operating system that has brought such success to the Apple Macintosh. Though the basic PS/2 is already being shipped and the higher-priced models will go on sale later this year, the new software will not be available before next year, a delay that gives breathing space to Apple, IBM's biggest competitor. Apple's computers already offer many of the features, including an advanced graphics capability, that will not be available on the PS/2 until 1988. In the hours following IBM's announcement, Apple's stock rose 5 points. Nonetheless, IBM proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Into The Wild Blue Yonder | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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