Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimates, claims an internal Air Force memo, the Lockheed Corp. stands to earn nearly twice the profits agreed upon for the production of five C-5B transport planes. Another horror story was reported last week by the Washington Post: in 1981, top executives at General Dynamics allegedly sought to delay the disclosure of a $100 million cost overrun on its nuclear-submarine program until lucrative new Navy contracts that would offset the losses were signed. Sherick laments, "I keep turning over rocks, and under every rock I keep finding things...
Some observers regarded the confusion over whether Nicaragua is being sincere or is involved in trickery as evidence of a power struggle within the Sandinista leadership. An opposition politician asserted that Sandinista moderates had previously agreed to delay the vote in order to appease international opinion. This, he said, was reversed when Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge Martinez and Planning Minister Henry Ruiz Hernandez returned from Eastern Europe two weeks ago. The moderates agreed not to delay the vote in return for the acceptance of the proposed Contadora pact. Their capitulation has angered the opposition, known as the Coordinadora...
Despite the delay, Independent staffers said they were satisfied with the printer which signed a contract with the weekly in June. They said that similar delays had occurred in past years, but could not remember exactly when...
...printer's General Manager, Edward Thompson, said the main cause of the delay, one of five contract jobs behind schedule, was the collapse of a machine used to lift the 1000 pound paper rolls...
...delay did not go entirely unnoticed by the Independent's readers, as several stopped by the publication's Canadav office to ask about delivery...