Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scores of other foreign businessmen at the ransacked Kuwait International Hotel. PVE was ready to move immediately, but Kuwait was not. The Saudi intermediary, it seems, lacked sufficient clout. Five months later, a network of agents is finally in place, and a contract should be signed soon. But the delay -- and the need to pay astronomical agency fees -- has pushed the estimated cost of the two-year project to approximately $1.2 billion. "More than $100 million of that will go to the agents," says an aide to the Prime Minister, "and PVE * will properly pass that cost...
Shamir's credo is that Arabs hate Israelis until proved otherwise. This belief impels him to seek concrete evidence of Syria's sincerity, something he can obtain only by moving to the peace table. His instinct is to delay, but he fears that he might squander the best chance Israel has seen to make peace. "We must start negotiations," Shamir said Friday, "and we want to start them...
...other countries to drop their sanctions against South Africa, De Klerk must try to get the A.N.C. and other black groups to the negotiating table to write a new constitution that would extend voting rights to the black majority. "Inkathagate," as the press dubbed the affair, may delay the start of an all-party conference, originally planned as early as September, where the major political groups will decide how to structure negotiations. Use of secret funds by Pretoria also raised suspicions that it was employing below- the-belt tactics to weaken the A.N.C., widely considered the most likely group...
...flat. Defense Minister Moshe Arens predicted to the newspaper Yediot Aharonot that Baker would leave without any agreement that "will bring about the meeting he wants to organize." Even if Shamir accepted, right-wing parties would almost certainly leave his coalition and topple the government. New elections would then delay a peace conference further...
...when the club last September withdrew its dramatic oceanside course from a P.G.A.-sanctioned pro-amateur tournament that it had been host to since 1947. Cypress Point insists that it has no ban on blacks, although it has no black members and none on the waiting list, where the delay is seven years. Vice President Dan Quayle, who belongs to Maryland's male-only Burning Tree Country Club, played at Cypress Point in December; he said later he had been assured it "does not discriminate." Members may genuinely believe it does...