Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr's, but White House aides from Washington to Africa, where the President was traveling last week, insist he is not making this legal maneuver to push off Starr's investigation. "We want to get this [investigation] over with as soon as possible," says Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel. But delay has been enormously helpful to Clinton. By refusing to explain his relationship with Lewinsky, he created a time-release capsule that aided the public's digestion of the scandal, giving people the leisure to sort out which parts of the President's character are important and which...
LATE: "After a two-hour delay, Clinton stepped...onto a stage...'I didn't know his hair was that gray,' said second-grader Sam Melvin, 8. 'Or that his face was that red,' added classmate Kate Ferguson. --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel...
...staff member of Phillips Brooks House I have had some opportunity to observe PBHA's process of reviewing candidate for Executive Director. One aspect of this process is the timeline. The article says I attributed the delay "not to careful deliberation but the difficulties of working around an academic calendar." The role of the academic calendar is important, but not for the reason the article suggested...
Instead, as I commented, the presence of winter break and exams needs to be appreciated by those who might otherwise mistakenly attribute a "delay" (if that is the word) to intra-committee conflicts. A long timeline is not inconsistent with careful deliberation, and though the article neglected to say so, I myself pointed this out to the reporter...
...could not comment on whether WHRB will reconsider its decision to air the hockey game on a tape delay...