Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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April showers may bring May flowers, but they also delay sporting events. The Harvard baseball team was to have played B.U. yesterday in the Beanpot consolation game, but the damp conditions caused the matchup to be put off until today at noon...
...ownership of the Fox stations, a decision that might subject him to a huge Internal Revenue Service bill but would leave his network otherwise intact. The investigation may already have done much more serious harm, allowing Fox's competitors to negotiate 10-year deals with their affiliates and thus delay Fox in its race to overtake one or more of the established networks...
From between the heavy draperies of House majority whip Tom DeLay's first-floor Capitol office, a bizarre scene could be glimpsed outside. In the normally quiet, heavily guarded parking lot, 13 elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were parading trunk-in-tail across the East Plaza, leading an entourage of dancing dogs and clowns on stilts. At the center of the mini-circus, a beaming Speaker Newt Gingrich shared a ring with a 14,762-lb. elephant named King Tusk. Touching off what would become a daylong stampede of inevitable jokes, the Speaker announced that...
...this note of triumph and giddiness came the beginning of the end of the Republicans' first 100 days in power. But in DeLay's office there was little cause for celebration. The first vote on $189 billion in tax cuts was less than five hours away, and the G.O.P.'s chief vote counter was still 10 short of what he needed even to get the bill to the floor. What Gingrich dubbed the "crowning jewel" of the G.O.P.'s "Contract with America" was in jeopardy...
Ignoring the spectacle outside the window, two Republican Congressmen and four staff members sat around a table, working the phones. "Hey, we need some help with Metcalf," DeLay shouted. Across the hall Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition, an organization of 31,000 fundamentalist and evangelical churches, alerted the group's lobbyists to start calling the office of the freshman Republican from Washington State. Then she headed out the door to look for Jack Metcalf in person...