Word: delay
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America has long wrestled with the tension between its Puritan and pioneer heritages, and its attitude toward sex has often seemed muddled. Victorian parents, fearful of their children's sexuality, would try to delay the onset of puberty by underfeeding their children. By 1910 exploding rates of syphilis drove the crusade for sex education in much the way AIDS does today. In 1940 the U.S. Public Health Service argued the urgent need for schools to get involved, and within a few years the first standardized programs rolled into classrooms. But by the 1960s came the backlash from the John Birch...
Public opinion and practicality have always driven the politics of whaling, and the debate has taken many strange twists over the years. Time and again conservationists have called for more studies before the ban is lifted -- a tactic used widely by industries to delay environmental regulations. In this case, there are sound reasons for caution. Humans have failed miserably in efforts to manage the harvesting of wild animals, and the IWC approved the moratorium because past attempts to control whale hunting had been disastrous. Whalers ignored catch limits and other restrictions designed to protect populations...
After a lengthy debate and two motions to delay the vote, the Faculty yesterday approved the recommendations of the 1992 report on the status of ROTC, which may prevent Harvard students from joining MIT ROTC activities...
President Neil L. Rudenstine said MIT and the Department of Defense asked to delay discussions of the issue until after an expected move by the Clinton administration this summer regarding the ban on gays in the military...
Mansfield later motioned to delay the vote on the ROTC report's recommendations until next fall but was voted down...