Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee recommends allowing scientists under research agreements a 30-day delay in the public release of their research. The delay would be useful in helping the firm and the scientist decide whether or not to seek a patent for innovative work done under the contract...
According to the report, the 30-day delay would "not materially impede the progress of science." Rather, it would keep sponsored research profitable and maintain the incentive for private firms to fund...
...potential dangers of the pesticides to humans. According to the EPA, studies done in the 1970s indicated that Mirex was present in human mothers' milk all over the South. The agency says Mirex and chlordane are both dangerous to human health. "We call Mirex a possible human carcinogen. Mr. DeLay might disagree with that, but we believe the studies," says Sylvia Lowrance, an EPA spokeswoman. Other nonpartisan groups, including the Inter national Agency for Research on Cancer, agree . Both pesticides are banned in some European and South American countries...
...study on "pre- and post-homicidal conduct of murdering spouses," to a flight attendant on Simpson's flight to Chicago. The defense has already found much to contest on this list. Still, Ito keeps trying to keep things moving. At one point, the judge sternly warned the lawyers, "Delay is something that will be anathema next week." Surely by now even the judge must realize that delay is, in fact, second nature...
...Norm called saying he had talked to his commanders and needed still another delay to start the ground war, to the 26th. He had the latest weather report in hand, he said, and bad weather was predicted for the 24th and 25th, maybe clearing on the 26th. Bad weather equaled reduced air support, which equaled higher casualties. I was on the spot. So far, Cheney had accepted my counsel. But now I did not feel that Norm was giving me sufficiently convincing arguments to take back to Cheney and the President. What should I expect next, a postponement...