Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are limits to how far the Japanese will go to help America. Opinion surveys show that the majority of Japanese fear that a significant drop in the nation's trade surplus would be bad for their domestic economy. This concern gives some bureaucrats reason to delay reforms that would further open markets to American imports. During Bush's visit, Japanese auto companies promised to double their purchase of American auto parts to $19 billion by 1994. But they are reluctant to extend assistance to U.S. makers trying to sell American cars. "The Americans themselves have done little to penetrate...
...that congressional Democrats are sure to match and more likely exceed. The President asked Congress to pass his plan by March 20, a deadline that would permit him to sign a quick fix if the Democrats cooperate -- and bash them for hampering the fight against the recession if they delay...
...guides, Mui Van Pin, was the leader of a nearby guerrilla detachment in 1965. During questioning at Phu Yen the day before, he had clearly remembered burying the two airmen three days after the crash -- a delay caused by a dispute between two neighboring villages over which should get the credit for two dead enemies. But the newly discovered witness, Phe, distinctly recalled burying both men the day after the crash, in separate graves, even though the regular soldiers were ready to put them in a common grave. "I am a member of the Thai minority," he explained...
...hard currency as citizens struggled with a runaway ruble. Factories called stoppages, services inexplicably ceased. Food was critically short in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Ukraine and Belorussia got Yeltsin to postpone until Jan. 2 a decree freeing many Russian prices, which was supposed to take effect Monday. The delay only touched off a new binge of panic buying; longer lines than ever snaked through Moscow's streets. While the politicians bickered over the shape of the union, citizens in the former Soviet Union were worried about how they would survive the winter...
...nightmare has ended, Picco's mission is incomplete. Securing the return of the two remaining German hostages and the Israeli soldier will be ticklish, in part because the abductors are afraid they will be liquidated by vengeful Western governments or abandoned by their former Iranian patrons. That fear could delay Perez de Cuellar's dream of bringing the entire hostage saga to a close -- and send Picco back into the Bekaa Valley...