Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pragmatically, Koop might be well advised to abandon campaigning for vivid AIDS instruction in the third grade. The delay of a couple of years would not greatly undermine his overall goal. But the largest problem entwined in sex-ed courses cannot be so easily evaded or resolved. The subject is impossible to teach without plunging into the question of values. Many educators assert that curriculums can be made value free, a dubious idea at best...
...neighboring countries about the extent of the damage. "The Swiss have treated us in a beastly manner," complained Neelie Smit-Kroes, the Dutch Minister for Transport and Public Works. The Swiss assuaged tempers somewhat by accepting responsibility for the accident and stating that they would consider paying compensation. The delay in getting out information about the accident, said Swiss officials, was due to a "misunderstanding...
...only drama was the delay. For days the People's Tribunal in Managua endlessly discussed a verdict, irritating the tired defendant, his lawyers and the impatient international press corps. And when the tribunal finally handed down its ruling in the case of Eugene Hasenfus late last week, there were no surprises. Since the opening of the trial on Oct. 20, the outcome had never been in doubt. Ample evidence, and Hasenfus' own admission, confirmed that the former Marine had been delivering weapons to the U.S.-backed contras when his C-123K cargo plane was downed over Nicaragua...
...after a brief delay during which we arranged for a pilot to fly the plane, we jetted off to share the American Way with the crack suicide troops of Iran's Revolutionary Guards...
...held and abandoned my hypotheses in this vein during post-season play. After Henderson's resurrection in playoff game five, I actually dared to suggest that God was a Red Sox fan. After the most providential rain delay in recent sports history, between games six and seven of the Series, I decided that God cannot influence human actions, but still controls the weather. After the last game, I realized that He must hate the DH rule so much that He only favors the Sox within the American League. (I must, of course, now also entertain the possibility that either...