Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Speaker Gingrich - not to mention most of their leadership. While the situation is extremely fluid, one proposed slate of candidates is slowly gaining currency: Bob Livingston for Speaker, replacing Newt; Steve Largent for majority leader, ousting Dick Armey; and Jennifer Dunn for conference chair, knocking John Boehner aside. Tom DeLay, the party whip, would keep his job. Livingston, currently the Appropriations committee chair, is hardly anyone's idea of a 1994-style revolutionary. But the young rebels who attempted to oust Newt in 1997 might be willing to support him as long as one of their own -- Largent -- gets...
...create a little reality," according to a U.S. official, by telling the press that Clinton had consented--which he hadn't. American officials were livid. At 9 a.m., Netanyahu told Clinton he wanted to take a nap. When he awoke three hours later, having reaped the benefits of delay for domestic political consumption, Bibi was ready to sign...
...longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...
...honestly think in my soul, the reasons to not do this, the reasons to delay were so profound, that not delaying can only be seen as an issue for the President, that he simply wanted to stand up in Martha's Vineyard and say, `Terrorism is over, bin Laden is dead...
...Unless you're 100 percent committed to getting your MBA, wait," Marks says. "Don't think of HBS as a two-year 'delay' while you figure out what you want to do, because you won't have the drive to keep...