Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Engel added that two considerations might delay purchasing a marley: cost and storage of the marley, as Lowell Hall was not designed with a storage area...
When repeatedly asked about why there was a delay in the closing down of the log file, Steen claims offhandedly that there were simply no complaints about it, and that "there are technical issues involved." When the log file was finally closed down, Steen was unable to say "what impact [the closure] will have. It may affect something else that needs it. We'll have to wait and see." Such technical insecurity is cause for concern...
...process for identifying new items with recycled content to be procured by the federal government. While the EPA met the deadline for proposing 21 new items last April, ranging from paper to carpet, six months later the recycled content standards for these items are still not finalized. Further delay only gives industry opponents of recycled content standards more time to lobby for weakening of the standards...
Even from its first giddy day in power, the House leadership was smelling trouble. On Jan. 4, when majority whip Tom DeLay of Texas did a head count of support for the balanced-budget amendment, he came up as many as 30 votes short. Depending on how the amendment was worded, Republicans would lose either moderates or radicals from their ranks. The freshmen were firmly behind Gingrich in supporting the version that not only mandated a balanced budget by 2002 but also required the three-fifths majority to raise taxes. Told that opposition from Democrats and many moderate Republicans made...
...build a new home are likely to be stymied at first by a moratorium on postquake construction, a policy intended to avert slapdash projects and allow time for possible new building-code and zoning strictures. In Kobe's case, officials were thinking about extending the normal two-month delay to as long as half a year...