Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mounting a tribunal is a course no small task. Logistical and political support must be forthcoming from the Western nations. The benefits of prompt action will be great, for Rwanda and the world. The costs of delay could be a return to genocide...
...Hollings warned. "It's going to take time. I've got problems with it." But the Administration got tied down negotiating concessions for lawmakers on other committees and failed to officially submit the treaty until last week. Hollings declared that he would invoke his right, as Commerce chairman, to delay consideration in the Senate for 45 days. Senate majority leader George Mitchell responded by scheduling a special lame-duck session for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Leaders of both parties say they have the votes for GATT to pass today, but that could change over the next two months...
...said the council might ask the state legislature to delay the starting date of Question 9, if it is approved by the voters, to allow consideration of home-rule petitions from Cambridge, Boston and Brookline...
...desire to charge ahead, Ito quashed a motion by the prosecution to defer the jury selection until after a hearing on the admissibility of DNA evidence in the case. The DA's office had asked for the delay because they could then pick a jury "untainted" by any media coverage of DNA results that come out in the hearing -- a well-known prosecution ploy, says TIME Law Reporter Andrea Sachs. "They don't want the jury to hear any of the outside information. They want a sequestered jury," says Sachs. "A sequestered jury is often a hanging jury...
...future of this year's hockey season, scheduled to open on Saturday, is on ice as players and owners try to reach a collective bargaining agreement. National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman will delay the opening games if an agreement is not reached by Friday...