Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After two years of delay, President Neil L. Rudenstine has made a decision on University funding for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard...
...party has long supported. Clinton faces real trouble next week in the Senate, when the lame-duck Democratic Congress convenes to take up GATT. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress has agreed to consider GATT under "fast track" rules that allow only a yes or no vote, with no amendments...
...lawyer forSusan Smith, the South Carolinian accused of murdering her two kids, asked a judge to delay his client's psychiatric evaluation for 90 days so he'll have more time to decide whether to use the insanity defense. Attorney David Bruck argued that Smith's rights would be violated by an immediate evaluation - - as the prosecution demanded today. Experts say the prosecutor, Thomas Pope, made the demand in order to force Bruck to reveal his defense strategy: a plea of guilty by reason of insanity or a guilty but mentally ill plea. The judge adjourned the hearing without ruling.Post...
...Referee Cerbo, without warning, called a penalty on the Tigers for delay-of-game and sent the teams to their locker rooms. Harvard came back and would score two goals to increase its lead to four, which would be enough...
...Faculty then supported the Verba committee report, but Rudenstine decided to delay the decision for a year...