Word: delay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican leaders today predicted thata compromise can be reached this summer. "We have major differences over how the budget ought to be balanced," the President said after meeting withSenate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic leaders. "But I think it would be an error to delay it and run the risk of having a crisis in government." Dole and Gingrich made no pledge to budge, but Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said both parties "are committed to making this work...
...birthrate of welfare mothers attributable" to the family cap. The dissonance between O'Neill and Rutgers is largely explained by three factors: a general decline in births; a slight decrease in illegitimacy, perhaps imputable to the growing rage against bearing children out of wedlock; and, above all, a reporting delay predicted by independent researchers when O'Neill announced her conclusions late last year. "It seems that many women mistakenly thought they'd be cut off from welfare altogether if they had another kid," says Michael Laracy, who studied welfare policy for New Jersey for 17 years. "When they realized they...
...Fried said he doesn't think the delay will"necessarily have an effect [on the outcome of thehearing...
Still, according to yesterday's Boston Globe, Councillor Christopher A. Ianella (D-Worcester) said the delay is unfair...
Councillors who voted to delay the hearing cited vacation plans and the recovery of Councillor Jordan Levy (D-Worcester) from back surgery as the reason for the decision to wait two months, according to the Globe...