Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...places in substance-abuse treatment facilities. The government will contribute $20 million in three installments over two years, but only if the District meets strict performance standards. Local skeptics question whether the inept D.C. bureaucracy can manage the project efficiently. Cisneros, however, fears partisan bickering on Capitol Hill could delay the program's launch until next fall...
...less than 100 cases of fullblown AIDS have been reported, causing health officials to delay taking preventive measures...
Even the Hubble repair mission has already had glitches. Last week ground technicians discovered a faulty sensor in a control device on Endeavour's right wing. After mulling over the problem for a day, NASA officials decided not to delay the mission, because three other backup sensors could do the job of the malfunctioning one. Of course, given the shuttle's recent record, a Dec. 1 launch is not exactly a safe...
...force can now stop or even delay our emancipation from the pain and the shame of our racist past...
Bleary-eyed as the clock ticked past midnight, the negotiators bargained over final details. At last, nine hours late, 19 men ascended the podium in the cavernous convention center and signed, one by one, a draft constitution giving equal rights to South Africans of every color. The last-minute delay was nothing to blacks who had waited generations for this moment. "We have reached the end of an era," declared a triumphant Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress. President F.W. de Klerk agreed: "South Africa will never be the same again...