Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommate among them) be able to cope, knowing that Fly-By will not be fast enough for them to hear the habitual recounting of the rules at the very start of the broadcast. All we can do is hope that the Red Sox go all the way and delay consideration of such ponderous matters...
...major shareholders include Motorola (which kept a 20% stake), Lockheed Martin and Sprint, plus Germany's Veba AG and Russia's Krunichev State Research Production Space Center. The joint venture was supposed to go live on Sept. 23, but then software glitches led officials to disclose that they will delay until Nov. 1 what amounts to the final roll of the dice in its $5 billion gamble to revolutionize telecommunications--or become the best-publicized flop in history. The announcement nudged its stock price on the NASDAQ exchange down to the mid-30s in mid-September, from a stratospheric high...
...hundred miles above the planet's surface. They're cheaper to launch since they weigh less; and since the satellites are closer to the ground, devices with small antennas and comparatively small battery packs can reach them. Most important, signals can go up and return with no perceptible delay, which is vital for voice communications. But more of them are needed to cover the earth's surface, and their expected lifetime--five to 10 years--is shorter...
...airlines' secretive and sometimes high-handed manner doesn't help. Passengers are routinely herded onto planes and only afterward told they must endure an hourlong air-traffic delay. Big discount fares are advertised widely, but prices seem to slide up and down with little explanation. Nor will the airlines reveal how many discount seats are allocated on flights (the number varies according to demand for the flight, with the goal of maximizing revenue). And the airlines have drained most of the spontaneity from the nation's leisure-time travel, with those money-saving but anxiety-producing "nonrefundable" fares, which require...
...seven-month delay worked, didn...