Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...India are normally prickly, but there was no need to irritate them further by letting more than a year go by without sending a U.S. ambassador to New Delhi (even now the expected choice, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Wisner, has not been formally named). Many Indians take the delay as a deliberate downgrading of their country, the world's largest democracy, to second-class status. Images matter a great deal in foreign capitals, where people draw powerful conclusions from what they see on CNN. Carnegie's Goble recalls the embarrassing case of the U.S.S. Harlan County, the ship carrying...
...Clintonophobia" is an abnormal condition that strikes many conservatives today and manifests itself in the classic four Ds of their politics: denial, delay, derision and division. Unable to bring substance to the pressing issues of the day, conservatives see in the Clintons their worst fear: an activist Administration with a progressive social agenda that won't retreat from its goals...
While some have blamed political divisions in the department for its failure to find new members, professors say the delay is due to Harvard's high standards...
...deal, scheduled to be signed in July 1, was finally closed March 29. The delay had stalled attempts by computer users in several places around the University to upgrade their systems and software...
...eight-month delay was caused by problems stemming from the reorganization of Sun Microsystems Inc., Toth said. He said the delivery of important products such as operating systems and compliers had been delayed, Toth said...