Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boni said the agency delayed the departure of researchers, originally said he expressed disappointment with the delay, but said he was not worried about dangerous travel conditions...
...Pittsburgh to spew larger quantities of sulfur dioxide into the air while WP&L reduces its emissions. The arrangement is probably the first of many, and it should help lower the overall cost of curbing acid rain, since some utilities may opt to buy less costly rights now and delay more expensive efforts to cut back pollution...
...period, Gates was either at the fund raiser or in transit. "The command structure was not in place. They didn't keep in touch," said deputy fire chief Donald Anthony, who had 20 fire engines in place waiting for police escorts. To law-enforcement strategists like Beene, the long delay was fatal. "You think one hour isn't very long? One hour in a crowd situation is like weeks or months," he said. Says L.A. County sheriff Sherman Block: "It's my belief that a show of force at ((the intersection where the riot started)) might not have stopped everything...
...Last week four states, prompted by public outrage over the Senate's 1991 midnight pay hike and other Capitol Hill scandals, ratified the amendment, which Madison had sought as part of what became the original Bill of Rights. While the provision does not bar pay raises outright, it would delay their execution until after the next congressional election, thus making lawmakers more accountable to voters...
...Taking a leaf from Mahatma Gandhi's book, she has organized hunger strikes, demonstrations, sit-ins, roadblocks and rallies. A measure of her success: the World Bank has ordered an independent review of the environmental impact of the Narmada dam and plans for resettling villagers, prompting foreign investors to delay releasing fresh funds...