Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silence can be explained easily. The prisoners all wanted to arrive at a consensus but were jailed in various prisons across the country and found it difficult to do so. The conditional offer carried some restrictions on their freedom and needed to be considered carefully. To chalk up the delay in the decision to a reluctance to renounce violence is an over-simplification of the matter...
...Cobra to be running smoothly when they went to retrieve it. After all, the two-man gunship had been in the Fort Worth, Texas, factory nearly a year for a $1.8 million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field 15 miles southeast of Dallas...
...only magnifies the problem for next time. But without those spending caps intact, the surplus is a shadow of its former self ? and that means no tax cut for the GOP, no prescription-drug plan or new teachers for Clinton. No election-year goodies. No wonder they want to delay the tough decisions until...
...while most undescended testicles eventually get where they're supposed to be, the delay seems to cause some sort of damage: cryptorchidism affects only 3% of the male population but is a factor in 14% of testicular-cancer cases. Doctors have identified other risk factors, such as a family history of testicular cancer, HIV infection and a previous bout with the disease. But none of these explain the dramatic rise in incidence. Other possible risks include occupational exposure to extreme temperatures and the maternal use of fertility hormones...
When Bradley criticized Clinton, he also ignored a fact known to everyone in the room: with Newt Gingrich and now Tom Delay running the House, no President could launch a war on poverty. It was all Clinton could do to beat back the 1995-96 G.O.P. tide, and the Rainbow members are grateful for it--but Bradley never acknowledged that, and the omission undermined his credibility. Problem is, it's hard for Bradley to draw stark contrasts with Gore, who was cheered wildly by the Rainbow on Saturday. Bradley said he wouldn't try to reverse welfare reform but would...