Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current round of negotiations was originally scheduled to conclude last March, according to city officials, and the protracted delay has made several city council members restless. Earlier this month, Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 called for a public hearing to discuss the negotiations, which are closed to council members...
...some Democrats would even be willing to vote for the package in the absence of a Republican majority. Predictions seeped out of the Speaker's office that supporters would probably prevail by the narrowest of margins. If the nose counters could not forecast the critical number -- 218 -- they would delay the showdown until Friday. Yet many members went to the floor still undecided, worrying about November...
...half. For the nearly 20 years that Darman has been shaping policy in Washington, that has been his reputation. A manipulator who could not be trusted. A hypocrite who, even as he preached against the shortsighted "now-nowism" that has afflicted American society, used ludicrously optimistic economic forecasts to delay the day of reckoning with the looming budgetary disaster. Former Senator Howard Baker even coined a word to describe his elliptical gambits: Darmanesque...
Your connecting flight has been delayed another three hours, and you feel as if you are getting a lavender tan from the lighting. You are buzzed on cardboard coffee and too woozy from an airborne snackoid served on your incoming flight to risk alcohol. But do you despair? Of course you do. Do you give up? Certainly, by reaching into your flight bag and withdrawing one of this season's airport novels. You know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through...
Government supporters and Bhutto partisans blamed each other for inciting . the violence, which postponed the hearing into charges that the former Prime Minister sold government-protected land below market rates to a London firm possibly linked to a cousin. But if the protesters' goal was to delay proceedings until after parliamentary elections are held on Oct. 24, they were disappointed. Another hearing is scheduled for this week. If Bhutto is found guilty, she will be banned from running in the October elections and disqualified from holding office for up to seven years...