Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experimental drug called copolymer I has been found to delay the progression of multiple sclerosis by decreasing the number of muscle-weakening attacks...
...timing reasons only, then, the delay on GATT was perhaps the most wounding of Clinton's legislative defeats. Nonetheless, it did expose a weakness in Clinton's trade crusade. Effective as he is at negotiating tougher agreements, the President has had trouble holding together the legislative coalitions he needs to get them approved. Republicans have generally supported his effort because free trade has long been a G.O.P. first principle. But as the 103rd Congress ended last week with what White House chief of staff Leon Panetta called a "cry of anguish," most Republicans were willing to abandon years of doctrine...
...GATT. If carried out, the treaty would place the equivalent of $1,700 into the bank account of the average American working family during a 10-year period, according to a White House estimate. While most Americans might not yet appreciate the benefits of the agreement, the latest delay dismayed industry executives whose companies stand to gain most immediately from its adoption. "This is the opportunity of the century," sighed Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of Archer Daniels Midland, the vast Illinois-based food-products and grain company. "This is the biggest step toward free trade that has ever been taken...
...about the provision all along. Yet he balked because, he said, it favored the Washington Post Co., which owns a controlling interest in one of the cellular operations and was therefore an example of the special breaks contained in the thousand-page legislation that deserved further study. The unnecessary delay left even some Republicans appalled. "Pandering to protectionism -- and to Ross Perot," said Bill Kristol, who runs the Project for the Republican Future, "is bad for the Republican Party and the United States...
Some Republicans saw in Gingrich's delay a possible strategy designed to push Clinton into the hands of his party's left wing next year. Here's how that thinking goes: Clinton will have to ask Republicans and business interests for help with the trade treaty after the election, but that courtship will leave his partners on the left feeling jilted, and they will demand favors of their own. Their IOUs will make it more difficult for Clinton to govern from the center next year, when the 104th Congress turns more moderate. As Wayne Berman, who helped manage trade issues...