Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There can be little doubt in my view that the present crisis traces its roots to the fact that U.N. inspectors were on the verge of discovering further examples of Iraqi obstruction, delay and deception," he said...
Byounghee Min, a second-year student at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said the South Korean foundation that had given her a scholarship to study at Harvard has notified her that it would have to delay giving her living expenses for a month...
...while the prosecutors, along with everyone else in the courtroom, could only sit and wait. Some victims introduced themselves to one another. FBI chaplain Mark O'Sullivan, who had been counseling the mother, widow and children of Unabomber victim Gilbert Murray, said the family was "extremely disappointed" in the delay. "This has been an arduous process," he said. "They believed today this would finally be getting started...
...convicted in 1984 and sentenced to death. Fourteen years later, in the state with the busiest execution chamber in the land, Tucker now finds herself next in line to die. Barring a last-minute delay or commutation, on Feb. 3 she will be strapped to a gurney in Huntsville, Texas, and given a lethal injection that will stop her heart. If that happens, she will become the first woman executed in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez was hanged in 1863 for killing a horse trader--and the first woman in the U.S. since Velma ("Death Row Granny") Barfield...
Last February, Congress Watch documented a typical outing. The Tobacco Institute flew 11 members, including Republican House leaders Tom DeLay and John Boehner, to the Phoenician, a Scottsdale, Arizona resort, for a "legislative conference," complete with morning seminars on the harmlessness of nicotine and afternoons free for golf and spa treatments at the Centre for Well-Being, at a cost of $62,890. There's no linkage, of course, but five months later the Republican leadership slipped a $50 billion tax break for tobacco into the budget bill. (By contrast, Espy's Agriculture Department actually tightened poultry regulation...