Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tamraz story broke Monday morning, guaranteeing another round of charges of lax management and another delay in the hearings. At 4:30 p.m., Lake went to the Oval Office to tell Clinton he wanted to pull his nomination. It was an emotional meeting. Clinton was frustrated and angry. He hugged Lake twice and tried to talk him out of his decision. When Clinton vowed to mount a yearlong fight, Lake politely cut him off. His mind was made up, and he didn't want to debate the President on it. That night Lake released his resignation letter, complaining about...
...said that "when someone is a victim, he or she should be at the center of the criminal justice process, not on the outside looking in." Matsch said that his reversal is intended to avoid a lengthy debate over the new law's constitutionality. That, he says, would only delay the paramount issue at hand: the trial itself...
...deal. About 4 million Americans suffer from the degenerative brain disorder, and caring for them costs some $100 billion a year. Before the middle of the next century, the aging of the baby-boom generation is expected to swell the number of Alzheimer's sufferers nearly threefold. Measures that delay the onset of symptoms in these patients by just five years could cut the associated health-care costs as much...
...terribly ecstatic that we had tracked him down. During our first conversation he confirmed that the book "is ready to go," and "should be out in January." In our second, mid-January conversation, he said the book had been pushed back, but wouldn't divulge the cause of the delay. We pried him for details, but all he would tell us is that the book would be undedicated, contain only the Hapworth story and that only very minor changes had been made from its original publication...
Part of the delay is the nature of the problem. A movie documenting this crisis captures the nature of the decay in its title: "Slow Fires...