Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first trial had begun. Back then Mrs. Evers sat in this same Hinds County courtroom and saw former Governor Ross Barnett embrace Beckwith in full view of the jury. She watched while Beckwith, a fertilizer salesman and expert marksman, winked, smiled and clowned through both trials. But today "Delay", as his friends call him, now 73, sat stonefaced. In his lapel he wore a Confederate-flag pin. He strained to hear Mrs. Evers as she recounted her husband's final moments...
...short run, the most practical way to use the new technology will be in genetic screening. Doctors will be able to detect all sorts of flaws in DNA long before they can be fixed. In some cases the knowledge may lead to treatments that delay the onset of the disease or soften its effects. Someone with a genetic predisposition to heart disease, for example, could follow a low-fat diet. And if scientists determine that a vital protein is missing because the gene that was supposed to make it is defective, they might be able to give the patient...
...subpoena -- which the Administration said it requested -- will be to make it a federal crime for anyone to divulge any information contained in the files. Five boxes of papers have been given to the Justice Department, with more to come in the next two or three weeks. The delay, said the White House, was because of the need to "catalogue" the papers. Attorney General Janet Reno said she might seek a court-appointed special prosecutor to pursue the case if a new special- prosecutor bill passes in Congress...
...confidence motions in the Knesset sponsored by the right-wing opposition, Arafat has been shaken by a recent spate of resignations from his own Fatah movement. According to Ghassan Khatib, a West Bank-based official with the People's Party, a constituent party of the P.L.O., the continuing delay in implementing the agreement has only further weakened Palestinian confidence in Arafat. Popular support for the Declaration of Principles ran at 65% in the territories just after the September signing; last week it was down...
Having thus tossed a lighted match onto one of the most combustible political issues in all of Greece, Zhirinovsky could hardly have been surprised when he was detained by Greek border police on Monday while attempting to pay a cross-border visit without benefit of his passport. The ensuing delay cost him an appointment back in Bulgaria with "Baba Vanga," an octogenarian grandmother who is Bulgaria's most famous clairvoyant. She later assured him by phone that he would have "a very good January...