Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student-faculty report, released in October, did advise that Harvard cease involvement with the program because of the military's policy barring gays and lesbians, but also stated that the University should delay action until the fall...
...elect Clinton is being urged to go slow, to put off the effective date of change. Some of that is an attempt to buy time to lobby so that change will never come. Some is sincere concern about disrupting the nation's defenses. But before Clinton agrees to any delay, he must answer a question implied in his own statements. If it will be wrong in the future to exclude gays and destroy the careers of those in place, how can it possibly be right...
...later. What is the use of solving a problem in a way that creates a larger problem? When we speak of a comprehensive peace, we do not mean that everybody marches shoulder to shoulder, like soldiers on parade. A little progress may take place on one front, a little delay on another. All the Arab parties understand that there are certain peculiarities regarding each of the issues. As long as they are satisfied that we are proceeding toward a comprehensive solution, progress on one issue can be made more speedily than on others...
...This case is an extremely strong case of discrimination," said Margaret A. Burnham, who is representing plaintiffs Milton J. Benjamin and Joan Wallace-Benjamin, the parents of one of the students at the school "This [the dismissal request] is an effort to delay the matter...
...ranked," says another Clinton aide. "Take job creation. What the hell is that, really? Do we go with a large economic-stimulus package right away? Do we increase infrastructure expenditures? Do we push all the training schemes he's mentioned at once and right away? Do we delay a middle-class tax cut in order to pay for it all, because the economy's so sour? These questions are crucial, and the list of them is endless. Simply enunciating what we call the Big Three major objectives gets you nowhere in real life...