Word: delay
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...word bluff, spelled bluf, has now entered the Creole language. Cedras thinks he can outbluff Clinton. He will play for time, negotiate with anyone who comes along, and point to the delay to convince his followers that the U.S. is not really coming. So far, he is succeeding. Invasion fears are fading, and many of Haiti's wealthy backers of the 1991 military coup against Aristide have begun their August vacations in the cool mountain valleys. In Washington Clinton's advisers seemed no closer to a decision, and most will be heading off for their vacations as well...
...June, however, Senator David Durenberger put a hold on Arthur's nomination. He wanted the Navy to respond to Hansen's charge that she was dismissed for having filed a sexual-harassment claim against an instructor. The Navy then abruptly withdrew Arthur's nomination, explaining that any delay in filling the post would be intolerable...
...article in the August 10 Journal of the American Medical Association titled "The Duration of Zidovudine Benefit in Persons With Asymptomativ HIV Infection" concluded that AZT, when administered at 500 milligram doses "caused a significant delay in progression to AIDS or death [in asymptomatic individuals...
...become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
...with flaws in a high-tech baggage system that have led to a 10 month delay in the opening of Denver's new International Airport, the city's mayor has decided to build an ordinary conveyer belt system. The Mile High airport has been losing $1 million a day since May 15 because of the failed futuristic baggage system. The alternative conventional system will run up a tab of $50 million -- a quarter of the cost of the computerized system...