Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it was the employees who had made the Enquirer a successful paper, and that there is no reason why it will not continue to make money and pay off the debt. As a clincher, they offered to pay $7,500,000 in cash. The argument won them a delay. Soon Ratliff went back to the court with an agreement from Halsey, Stuart & Co., investment bankers, to issue $6,000,000 in bonds to help buy the paper. A Cincinnati brokerage house also offered to underwrite a $1.5 million stock issue. The money would be cash on the barrelhead, said...
...Nothing. It states flatly that all prisoners "shall be released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities." The clause assumes that all prisoners would go home if free to do so. If the North Korean and Chinese Communist governments were bound by the Convention, the U.S. would probably have to repatriate all prisoners...
...French Senate, like the British House of Lords, is a withered arm of government; it can delay legislation passed by the Lower House, but cannot stop it. Nonetheless, elections in the Senate give one measure of French opinion. This week half of the Senate's 320 seats were up for election. Result: Premier Antoine Pinay, the commonsensible businessman who has cut prices and strengthened the franc, picked up nine seats for his moderate rightist Independent Republicans and Peasants. Most of them were at the expense of General Charles de Gaulle's French People's Rally, which lost...
Hapless members of this overflow must descend to the bottom of Fogg, seat themselves in the cramped and uncomfortable chairs, and adjust their eyes to the miniscule candlepower developed by the room's scanty and misdirected illumination. This last adjustment is the most difficult, and the delay caused by all the squinting and straining required is a harsh and unnecessary burden, especially for those in courses like Humanities I where each question on a three-hour exams needs three hours to write an adequate answer...
...program has the backing of the nation's hospital groups and other medical association, which praised the elimination of delay and confusion as an economic aid, and a help to the individual interne...