Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a new offensive -- accusing George Bush of planning to gut programs for the elderly, veterans and students -- when a fresh disclosure about his draft status forced him to play defense again. The Los Angeles Times said that in 1968 his uncle Raymond Clinton managed to delay the new college graduate's Army induction...
...move that caught most observers by surprise, the Bush Administration last week rejected the Oregon plan, sending it back for an overhaul guaranteed to delay the politically charged issue until after the presidential election. A legal opinion forwarded to the Governor by Health Secretary Louis Sullivan claimed the proposal was biased against the handicapped, violating the new Americans with Disabilities Act. The action not only undermined one state's initiative, it raised broader questions about whether the U.S. will ever muster the political courage required to replace today's patchwork medical-insurance systems with one that provides for all citizens...
...groups will evaluate terms of the agreement and offer recommendations before it goes to Congress, where the debate promises to be contentious. Some Democratic lawmakers charge that the pact lacks safeguards for American jobs and want programs to retrain displaced workers and protect the environment. Congress is expected to delay serious discussion until after the elections and then put the deal to a vote sometime early next year...
...this material in a Soviet magazine three years ago prompted a flood of recollections from other witnesses and led Radzinsky to distant provincial archives. He discovered a telegram that the local Bolshevik leaders had sent to Lenin the day before the killings. "The trial agreed upon . . . cannot bear delay, we cannot wait," it read, referring to earlier discussions in Moscow. "If your opinion is contrary inform immediately...
...primary unwritten law of selecting a vice-presidential candidate is to balance the ticket. A secondary law often has been to delay the announcement so as to inject suspense into an otherwise bland convention. Bill Clinton shattered both precepts. Four days before the opening of the Democratic Convention he chose, of all potential running mates, the one closest to being a carbon copy of himself: Tennessee Senator Al Gore. Besides hailing from neighboring mid-South states and swimming in the centrist mainstream of the party, they are close enough in age (Clinton is 45, Gore 44) to form the first...