Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incipient uprising, he took his anger out on him." That uprising might have come off had Brutus, Cassius et al been able to decide who would be the new colossus. "It was supposed to be a bloodless coup," says Carney, "with Dick Armey, Paxon, and (GOP Whip) Tom Delay coming to Newt and telling him: 'we can't control the rank-and-file insurgents any more.' They were going to give him an ultimatum, and Gingrich would have had to step down, without making a scene in front of the Democrats." But after a series of post-midnight meetings late...
...People picture this as being like a radio-controlled car, which would be the way to go if we could do that," says Brian Cooper, who will be the one sending the commands that tell the rover where to go. "But with an 11-minute time delay, it doesn't work that...
...decision to deploy is in the year 2000," said Army Brigadier General JOSEPH COSUMANO, head of the Pentagon's national missile-defense program. It will take another three years, he added, to actually build it. The Pentagon will have what Cosumano called "a rolling three-year deployment capability" to delay deployment into the future. That adds up to--well, who's counting...
...right ear off with 40 seconds left in the third round. The reigning champ jumped up in pain and walked away in anger, blood streaming from the ear. Tyson then ran after Holyfield and shoved him in the back before referee Mills Lane intervened. During an ensuing four-minute delay, a physician examined Holyfield and determined that he could continue, while Lane deducted 2 points from Tyson's score and warned him another bite would get him disqualified. "I told Tyson, 'One more like that and you're gone,'" Mills recalled later. Sure enough, when the fight resumed, Tyson...
...true about the addictive and fatal nature of their product. By capitulating now, despite all its past success in defeating liability claims by victimized smokers, the industry is at least sparing the nation years of litigation that the companies were doomed to lose sooner or later and that might delay indefinitely the onset of vitally needed tobacco-control measures...