Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ball boys cleaned up the yak, the chair umpire gave Pete a delay of game warning. There is no sympathy in tennis for booting during a match...
...proteins. They are also re-examining existing drugs that may offer therapeutic pportunities. Some experts, for example, speculate that antioxidants such as vitamin E and anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen could help shield neurons from chemical damage. Others have seized on tantalizing hints that the female hormone estrogen may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease in postmenopausal women. Estrogen appears to foster the brain's health by, among other things, spurring the growth of connections that link a single neuron to many others...
Many FOP participants said they had not been concerned by the weather but were not upset by the delay...
Stager said she didn't mind the delay, but said that it turned out to be unnecessary...
...nonstop, regularly churning out two and sometimes three books a year, provides a clue about how he is able to manage such a forest-clearing output. In his introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...