Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when it was already suspected to be a medium of transmission for the AIDS virus. Although the government was warned in March 1985 that almost all of the National Center for Blood Transfusion's stock was HIV-tainted, no action was taken for several months. The delay was responsible for the infection of some 4,400 individuals, about 40 percent of whom have since died of AIDS...
...petition would delay the construction of any major projects for seven months after a hearing before the planning board, if the project were deemed to have a major impact on traffic flow and congestion. The amendments would include parking garages for 150 cars or more under the definition of major projects...
After turning away legions of reporters, Broaddrick decided to sit down for a taped interview with NBC's Lisa Myers on Jan. 20. The network's delay in airing it angered Broaddrick, so she turned to Journal editorial-board member Dorothy Rabinowitz to tell her story. NBC insists that it has not killed the story but is just trying to confirm Broaddrick's charges to its satisfaction. "The story is not dead," an NBC executive told TIME. "We're working it hard...
...show progresses generally without delay, only pausing for the host to mis-pronounce the name of the next act (and, on a rare occasion, read a sentence about it). However, without a significant descriptive or educational component, the show gives the audience few tools to make appropriate meaning of what's happening on stage. For much of the show, we watched performers in costumes dance "traditional" programs that could be centuries--or weeks--old. We had no way to know. Such ignorance is dangerous because without context we are likely to conflate the students' portrayal of their culture's historical...
...show progresses generally without delay, only pausing for the host to mis-pronounce the name of the next act (and, on a rare occasion, read a sentence about it). However, without a significant descriptive or educational component, the show gives the audience few tools to make appropriate meaning of what's happening on stage. For much of the show, we watched performers in costumes dance "traditional" programs that could be centuries--or weeks--old. We had no way to know. Such ignorance is dangerous because without context we are likely to conflate the students' portrayal of their culture's historical...