Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling for an interview, claims one source, is two weeks), the youngster got in to ask advice. "Rather a waste of our time," said Terrill brusquely. "Why don't you read my congressional testimony?" The student did and wrote so well that his paper was sent...
...five men offered to bail her out. Today she is emaciated, weighing only 62 lbs., her hair is falling out, and she is showing unmistakable signs of mental derangement. The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus. Doctors at the home want to delay her release, fearing that if she returns to prostitution, she will transmit the AIDS virus to her clients...
...When a delay is caused by a mechanical problem, passengers sometimes suspect that they are kept on board long enough to prevent them from catching a competing flight, even though many airlines have agreements to transfer passengers in such situations. If other flights are available, notes Daniel Smith, a spokesman for the International Airline Passengers Association, "the airline can lose a whole planeful of passengers and their money. In a deregulated environment, that's a disaster...
Officially, the FAA blames the weather for 70% of this year's delays -- frequent fog and thunderstorms have plagued the busy Northeast, and other storms assaulted the Midwest. Any weather hitch quickly gets amplified in the prevailing system of hub airports, in which large airlines attract commuter feeders to major cities. A significant delay at one hub quickly affects ( connecting flights there and spreads to other centers...
...defenses. Under the President's timetable, the deployment of such Star Wars systems would not occur for at least 7 1/2 years. That feature was promptly leaked and widely seen as a victory for Secretary of State George Shultz and other arms-control advocates: it opened the way to "delay" deployment of SDI as part of a grand compromise that would include deep cuts in offensive weapons...