Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some foreign investors feel that the insurance, although relatively inexpensive, costs more than it is worth. Others complain of difficulty in getting speedy approval from foreign governments, which can delay a policy for months with red tape. One important drawback is that the guaranty program does not insure against devaluation, by which a nation can halve the value of its currency-and a firm's profits. Nor does it protect against sudden policy shifts, involving unfair import quotas, unfavorable exchange rates, discriminatory tax and wage laws or even government-inspired labor unrest...
...them might be added, speculatively, two more. One was this year's campaign for joint membership in Harvard-Radcliffe organizations, a plan to give Radcliffe student equality within Harvard organizations. After considerable delay and mutterings about Radcliffe's independence, whatever it is, the Annex acceded to these pressures and approved the change in policy. The long-term implications of this event were clouded, and while they might lead to nothing less trivial than a 'Cliffie president of the Lampoon, the change might turn out to be an important step toward the realization that Harvard College is coeducational, and that Radcliffe...
...Once Parliament had voted the powers he demanded-which it must do "without delay . . . for time is not waiting for us"-it would be sent on vacation until October...
...with stones and spittle on his turbulent good-will swing through Latin America. After Nixon returned home, one of the main points in U.S. reappraisal of Latin American relations was that reasonable U.S. aid should be promptly and cheerfully given. Last week the U.S. cut through red tape and delay to lend Chile $25 million and Colombia $103 million...
Cardinal Stritch's death underlines a situation that many in the Vatican view as critically serious: the understanding of the church's administrative machinery caused by the Pope's delay in calling a consistory to fill out the College of Cardinals, now down to 55 from its full complement of 70. Of the remaining 55, two have long been prevented by political conditions from fulfilling their functions (Cardinals Mindszenty and Stepinac, prisoners of Communism), one-Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski-has been seriously hampered by difficult communications, and another -Peking's Cardinal Tien-by ill health...