Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attorney William Weld indicated that some of the suspects may have worked for companies that benefited from insurance money. The indictment painted a picture of a ring that staked out potential targets at night, took oaths of silence and even dumped 14 fire boxes into Boston harbor to delay the reporting of blazes. Declared Boston Fire Captain Matthew Corbett: "These guys were sick...
...auditorium draped in blue-and-white bunting, Likud backers stood around glumly, like pallbearers at a funeral. At 10 p.m., as polls closed around the country, all eyes at both headquarters turned to the TV screens. But wait. Anchorman Haim Yavin announced that there would be a delay before the first projections could be broadcast; an error had been made in feeding data into the computers. The minutes ticked away. Finally, at 10:20, Yavin delivered the first prediction: 46 seats for Labor, 43 for Likud...
...provide a better racial balance in public schools. She also supported Reagan's proposal to provide tax credits for parents who send their children to private, including parochial, schools. Although she voted for the Social Security reform package of 1983, she expressed reservations about a six-month delay in cost of living increases and she opposed any increase in the age at which retirees can begin collecting benefits...
...impact on other private na tional groups that exclude women, but it is not yet clear which organizations might be affected. The status of such groups as the Boy Scouts and Kiwanis will have to await case-by-case tests. But the Minnesota Jaycees chapters did not have to delay celebrating. Kathy Ebert, former vice president of the Minneapolis chapter, had suffered through the 5½ yearlong legal process as one of the original plaintiffs and happily called a press conference to savor the victory. As for Anne Nelson, a St. Paul banker and onetime local Jaycees president, she reports...
...delay has added fuel to suspicions that the government has engaged in vote fiddling. In the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Opposition Candidate Carlos Padilla was initially reported to have trounced Political Affairs Minister Leonardo Perez by some 19,000 votes. Last week the election commission declared the winner was Perez, who just happened to be its former chairman...