Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HUCTW officials said they are also pleased. "We're very happy. It's a great contract from our point of view," said William Jaeger, the director of HUCTW. "It's great to be done without any more delay or acrimony than we've had. Everyone in the leadership of the union is extremely happy...
Gingrich has been cutting deals on everything from term limits to taxes. It was Gingrich, for example, who persuaded Dole last week to delay a vote scrapping affirmative-action policies until the Republican Party devises a different way to help blacks and other minorities without resorting to quotas...
...still be held responsible for economic mismanagement. The Authority has failed to attract significant new investments, aside from those in construction made mostly by Palestinians. Infrastructure projects sponsored by international donors are under way, but disagreements over Arafat's loose accounting practices were the main reason for a long delay...
...long-distance coalition had relied on Thomas Bliley of Virginia, who chairs the House Commerce Committee, to deliver their agenda. But two weeks ago, House majority leader Dick Armey informed Bliley that conservative Republicans, including many of the activist and free-marketeering freshmen, objected to provisions that would delay the Baby Bells from entering long distance. In short, the provisions were "too regulatory." The same message came from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican whip Tom DeLay...
...make equipment available. IntelCom Group, a Denver-based provider of alternative service, charged in an Federal Communications Commission complaint three months ago that U.S. West had failed to furnish high-capacity phone lines on schedule 83% of the time. The Bells "have obviously tried to drag this out and delay things," says J. Shelby Bryan, the president of IntelCom. "It's historic monopoly thinking...