Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there, they must pass through metal detectors so sensitive that they pick up the holograms in credit cards, leading to a sort of disrobing delay as, one at a time, people remove jewelry, rings, even security passes, whose metal clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike...
...from the entrances, creating a long ragged line of delegates and reporters hauling cameras, radios, telephones and computers toward the House That Jordan Built. Once there, they must pass through metal detectors so sensitive that they pick up the holograms in credit cards, leading to a sort of disrobing delay as, one at a time, people remove jewelry, rings, even security passes, whose metal clip sets off the alarms, while cameras and bags are xrayed and hand-checked. Since some local scalpers have color-xeroxed fake passes, the guards also must feel the passes to check the paper quality. Unlike...
...weapons, threatening to cut off talks and end their withdrawal. The rebels said the arms will be returned, but their point was made. The assault was yet another example of the embarrassment the determined Chechen troops have been able to inflict on the dispirited Russian forces. The attack may delay the mutual withdrawal from Grozny scheduled to begin Tuesday. It may also remind Russian commanders that their fortunes in Chechnya don't look good. -->