Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was an awkward delay in our departure. It took nearly 20 minutes for four burly bodyguards, using the butts of their automatic rifles, to force the huge Dobermans to a corner of the garden so that we could safely reach...
...last year, in contrast to 401,000 in a five-year period ending in 1975. Overseas filings are also up. In Japan the number of patent applications nearly doubled between 1980 and 1988 as that government signaled its intention to enforce property laws more strictly. After a 29-year delay, Texas Instruments recently received a basic patent on integrated circuits in Japan that could bring the U.S. company an extra $500 million in annual revenues from Japanese chipmakers...
...Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long as 48 hours. While the decision was in line with the court's recent law-and-order tilt, there was a surprise dissenter: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Arguing that a 24-hour delay was the constitutional limit, Scalia fumed, "Hereafter a law-abiding citizen wrongfully arrested may be compelled to await the grace of a Dickensian bureaucratic machine as it churns its cycle for up to two days...
Robert L. Zimmerman, executive director of the Watershed Association and a bridge committee member, said yesterday that his group would continue to delay action for the time being. "We've been quite pleased, by and large, with what's been going on with the committee," he said...
...Fiscal constraints would probably delay implementation," she adds...