Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goals: the White House realizes that air attacks probably won't topple Saddam or force him to open his doors to unrestricted access by U.N. inspectors. So Clinton and his aides have fallen back to a more limited strategy: chip away at Saddam's ability to make horror weapons, delay the day Saddam is able use them against neighbors, and then do it again after 12 months, if necessary. That way, the Administration can hail almost any damage to Iraqi targets as a success...
...neither side really wants that trigger to be pulled. For the White House the move invokes the ghost of Nixon; for Starr the ensuing court battles, ending at the Supreme Court, would delay his investigation for months. Starr at least has the legalities of executive privilege on his side. "It's reserved for three things: military or diplomatic secrets, and matters of national security," says McAllister. "You wouldn't expect a court ruling that Monica Lewinsky's sex life falls into any of those areas...
...reaches a deafening climax as they have to delay much of the skiing because of--snow? It seems to me that you want snow for a skiing contest to work properly...
According to Todd E. Plants '01, who is also a Crimson editor, he is the only council member making the 13,000 copies, causing the delay...
...guilt of the defendant were altered to assume innocence by the insertion of the word "allegedly." In reporting this incident, the reporter should have gathered more targeted responses to the facts of the case--making clear to those interviewed the status of the case and especially the University's delay in reporting the arrest and charge...