Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Let us lapse briefly into logic, dearest. The average flight contains 40 or 50 people who are convinced that the plane is going to crash, maybe 50 who are enraged by the mandatory 30-minute delay in getting off the ground, and another 100 or so who are busy getting giddy or truculent through the magic of booze. Under the circumstances, which is better: a calming smile or a conventional dose of feminist grimness? Wanda: Pilots don't have to chuckle when they give one of those reassuring Chuck Yeager speeches saying that there's nothing to worry about...
...even as the PCjr's detractors were dancing on its grave, IBM was plotting its rescue. The company's first step was to help beleaguered dealers by allowing them to delay payment until the end of August for computers ordered in January, six months longer than normal. Then, on the last day of July, IBM quietly introduced a flurry of new PCjr features and options, including a typewriter-style keyboard that was retroactively provided free to every registered owner...
...Greek threat will delay final agreement on membership for Spain and Portugal at least until March. That will leave just nine months for the parliaments of all twelve nations to ratify the necessary treaties before the entry target date of January 1986. The timing is particularly important for Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, who has promised his countrymen a referendum on Spain's continued membership in NATO by February 1986. Gonzalez has hinted that without E.C. membership he may not get the popular support he needs for NATO. Says a senior Spanish diplomat: "You cannot ask us to participate...
...British National Health Service practices triage by delay. For example, it provides heart transplants (110 this year) entirely at government expense, but there are waiting lists of up to a year for all such complex surgery. Though the principle of first come, first served is fair in its random way, rather like a London bus queue, the delay inevitably kills off a certain number of applicants...
...obfuscate the Bishops' message. Some critics have angrily accused the Catholic hierarchy of waiting until after the Presidential election to release a document implicitly critical of the Reagan Administration, thus sparing the President unnecessary political damage. On the contrary, the Bishops wisely embargoed their document until November 14. The delay insured that their letter would be received by a captive American audience, not one already caught up in the flurry of political debate surrounding a national referendum. More importantly, the Bishops realized, as everyone else did, that Ronald Reagan was returning for another four years of social program slashing...