Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate restrictions, backed out of a commitment to carry it. Ovation, a proposed fine-arts network, and the History Channel, offering documentaries and historical movies and mini-series, both plan a January launch but are having a hard time building...
...decision to seek delay, rather than dismissal, is a political one. "Arguing that Jones' claim should be thrown out for good would be a public relations disaster," says a Clinton adviser. "Postponement permits her to go forward later and affirms the principle that the President is not a king, that + nobody is above...
...argument for delay that Clinton's lawyer will make...
Clinton's delay in introducing his bill, and his retreat from his radical rhetoric, presented moderate Democrats and Republicans with the chance to define the issue for themselves. Of the competing bills in Congress, two are almost identical to Clinton's in philosophy, differing only in financing and thus the pace at which people would be pushed into the work force. The Mainstream Forum Plan, proposed by moderate House Democrats led by Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, would put a three-year limit on how long a welfare recipient can stay in a publicly funded job. A G.O.P. bill submitted last...
...There is another motivation: the cost of continued delay. Some activists are warning of the risks of social explosion if something is not done to break the desperate cycles of life in America's poorest precincts. "The conditions are desolate now," Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros warned Clinton, after Cisneros visited housing projects in Chicago. "With meager public resources coming in, what people would do in desperation, I don't know. But what I do know is that some intellectual arguments made around a conference table in Washington are far removed from the concerns of real people...