Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stipulation that the CIA will not be disclosed as a source of research support in subsequent published work. The first provision was qualified in a contract amendment indicating that because "the Government will not provide classified material for use in completing the research...[it] does not anticipate any delay in reaching an affirmative decision on any request for approval to publish." The amendment also obliged the Government to "complete its review within 30 days from receipt of any request to publish," and to give "specific written reasons for withholding approval" if it chose to deny publication. Thus, the right...
Texaco won one concession in its eleventh-hour negotiation with Pennzoil: a delay in the imposition of a bond. Normally, if Texaco wished to appeal Casseb's decision, it would be required to post bond to prevent Pennzoil from seizing the property it won in court. The bond would be worth the amount of the decision plus attorney's fees and interest, in this case, about $12 billion. Texaco said that it could not come up with so much money without going bankrupt. Pennzoil agreed to a grace period during which Texaco can prepare an appeal--or, perhaps, a settlement...
...would be at least 45 to 90 days after a drop in the cost of crude before the price of such consumer products as gasoline and heating fuel would be affected. Refiners tend to delay passing along the savings to customers until competitive pressure forces them to do so. Yet gasoline prices, which currently average $1.21 per gal. in the U.S. compared with a peak of $1.42 in March 1981, could fall about 2 1/2 cents for every $1 decline in crude prices. The response of heating-fuel prices to an oil-price drop depends partly on the weather...
...reigned, As Congress and Prexy have battled in vain. "Cut here, cut there," our leader opined But kudos to Tipster for holding the line. Things that go "boom" have been much in the news, But Ronnie and Misha took too long to schmooze. Both top bananas get thorns for delay In meeting each other for a moot nuke nay-say. A wide-open range awaits Lucky the dog, In Ronnie's agenda he won't be a cog. To his master we offer the same one-way flight As far west as need be to get out of sight...
Robert Saltonstall, associate vice president, for administration, said Harvard, which buys 3800 volts of electricity in bulk from the city utility, has two alternate routes for supplying all buildings with electricity. "Delay occurs because we have to first find the cause of the original problem so that we don't risk blowing the second system," Saltonstall said...