Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was not an isolated incident. At a time when crises a Bosnia and Herzegovina have broken the dikes of non-coercive "agreements" abroad, when domestic problems have reached a critical stage, the Senate minority has conspired to filibuster or delay almost every major piece of legislation proposed by the Clinton administration...
...passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, U.S. District Judge Charles Richey ruled that the accord cannot be submitted to Congress until the government prepares an environmental impact statement on such matters as whether increased manufacturing on the U.S. border with Mexico might lead to increased pollution. The delay will give opponents more time to organize and push the controversial vote into a congressional election year. "My fear is that NAFTA is finished unless this ruling is overturned," fretted Missouri Senator John Danforth...
Many things could delay the renovation--freak accidents, unforeseen glitches, labor strikes, shoddy workmanship. Harvard Real Estate and College officials know, though, that if a major delay does occur, they will most likely end up having to explain it to the national media, as well as to parents and alumni...
...that silences while she searches for small talk can be painful. Lynn Hecht Schafran, a lawyer at the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, points out that her shyness makes some people think she is cold but that she simply has the innate 10-second delay of the careful lawyer. Says Schafran: "She thinks first and then speaks. She has learned to be unafraid of dead airtime." She is equally careful in her writing. A former clerk, David Post, says he'd often get a draft back from her "totally torn apart. Every word got examined, literally." At first, Post...
...three years needed for testing and approval of RU 486 could delay its debut until the middle of the next presidential-election campaign. And as Jerry Falwell is happy to conjecture, "I think RU 486 will be a major issue in the campaign if it is not yet distributed." His goal, he says, will be to elect a leader "with different morals than the President." The lifers will talk about death that hides in the palm of a hand; the choicers about empowerment a woman can hold between two fingers. Although the advent of RU 486 could greatly change...