Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through the Congress has turned bleak. House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski went so far as to ridicule her nascent plan as the "domestic equivalent of Star Wars." (She still had him over for dinner that night.) A growing cabal of Administration officials has urged the Clintons to delay their health-care plan, arguing that the President can't risk overloading the system by sending both his economic and his health packages to Capitol Hill. But she is undaunted. The past two weeks have been a blur of 16-hour days, meetings for two and three hours...
Clinton was at first reported to be "extremely upset," then avuncularly forgiving -- Panetta needed "bucking up." Next, denial set in: a nuanced refusal that NAFTA was in trouble and a loud rejection of further health-plan delay. To some it makes little sense to postpone the health plan if it is going to make up a large part of the budget. But many Democrats, even in the Administration, agree that Clinton is oversubscribed. And on Friday the President added one more brick to his load; a government takeover of the student-loan program, which will lower collegians' interest rate...
...world really act as fast as possible to meet the threat? The answer, unfortunately, is no. The eventual rescue operation was the last chapter in a long saga of confusion, wishful thinking, indecision and delay. For nearly a decade before the 1987 ozone treaty, nations were warned of the danger but did nothing. In the U.S. those who had the power to take action instead engaged in self-delusion: the Reagan Administration at first dismissed the ozone threat as a nonissue, while Du Pont and other manufacturers underestimated future sales of CFCs, making the hazard seem minimal...
...Woman of the Inner Sea, the intrigues and excesses of Sydney society provide delicious background and important plotting points. But the scenes are thin beside Kate's semi-legendary transformation into a tough bird of the outback. Keneally's long delay in revealing details about the death of Kate's children is a deliberate tease and annoyance...
After another brief delay, the musicians, sporting predictably funky fashions, entered in a single-file procession, led by the snare drum beat of "groove regulator" Yosef Siegel. They mounted the stage and began the "Funkmove," a churning groove heavy with bass, drums, and wa-wa guitar effects. This introduction went on for nearly 20 minutes while the crew struggled to get sound to the singers' microphones. The funknical difficulties seemed to sap some of the crowd's thump-with-your-rump energy...