Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They were great," she said. "They weren't shaken by the delay...
...attributed the delay in appointing Harvard's top legal position to the unexpected response his office received when the opening was announced...
...Zaire, Kabila issued this ultimatum: "In three days, if we will not get good news from Kinshasa of his willingness to depart to the north, then we will be forced to continue the military advance." Kabila, who ordered the pause to give his armies time to regroup, hopes the delay will bring Mobutu under increasing pressure to leave. "This gives people in Kinshasa a chance to put some more pressure on Mobutu and his government," notes TIME's Peter Graff. "With the U.S. and now Belgium having publicly called for Mobutu's resignation, Kabila can wait to see what will...
...next few weeks brought legislative havoc. The vote for a balanced-budget amendment failed. The first revenue vote was a tax hike in airline tickets. Funding for international family planning, seen as a pro-abortion vote, passed. And all the while, Gingrich and his lieutenants Tom DeLay and John Boehner had quietly begun floating the idea of separating tax cuts from balancing the budget. The idea was to strip the Democrats of their demagoguery: to avoid the charge, so effective in the last election, that Republicans just wanted to gut Medicare in order to cut taxes for rich people...
Princeton may be even more difficult to beat after the sudden snow-storm on Tuesday dumped twenty inches of snow. That storm has caused Harvard's doubleheaders against Rhode Island, Hartford and most likely Maine to be cancelled this week. Such a delay poses a dual threat to the Crimson...