Word: delay
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Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston) yesterday moved to protect a bill outlawing discrimination against gays and lesbians in housing, employment and credit from opponents attempting to delay its passage in the amendment process...
...most typical piece of underhanded dealing involves the corruption of customs agents by hotels. "The law says customs can take up to 10% of an imported shipment of perishable items to test for disease," says a Chinese American who co-owns a Sichuan province hotel. To beat the delay and spoilage that can result from complying with such rules, hotel owners regularly pay off customs officials with "free samples...
Almost from the day Apple Computer introduced its Macintosh line in 1984, aficionados clamored for a portable version of the popular machine. This week Apple will finally unveil one. The delay was caused by the difficulty of producing a lightweight Mac with a graphics display as vivid as the larger models'. To achieve that clarity, insiders say, the new machine has an active- matrix screen, in which each of its thousands of picture elements will be controlled by an individual transistor. Instead of Apple's famous mouse, the new Mac has a cursor-control device called a trackball mounted...
Although Harvard initially threatened the city with a lawsuit over the new zoning, University officials announced earlier this month that litigation would be too expensive and would delay development of the site...
...strike by 60,000 NYNEX electrical employees may delay University phone repairs and new line-wiring for up to six weeks, a telephone company official said this week...