Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following months of delay, negotiations between the University and the food service workers' union are scheduled to begin June 14, but the two sides continue to disagree on the issue of opening the talks to the public and press...
This kind of schedule creates a "level of intensity" essentially unparalleled in the construction business, Cayer says. "You end up with a lot of nervous people," he adds. Harvard has made several attempts to accomodate students, including an unusually late 9 a.m. starting time during exams period and the delay of "the really noisy stuff" until after Commencement. But Cayer adds: "You can just go on and on, if you want to measure the inconveniences...
...More than 500 law students mobbed the dean's office to protest the faculty's decision to consider class participation when grading certain classes. The protests forced an open meeting and a decision by the faculty to delay implementation of the policy...
...when the current crop of radicals is sucked into the rat race, the issue will probably lie dormant for several more years. At the Law School, student protests prompted a postponement of the implementation of the new grading policy. It sounded like a concession, but a one-year delay in a transient community is more likely to make the issue fade...
Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, asserted that the financial woes of some Latin American countries, especially Brazil, have been worsening. Last week the International Monetary Fund and major banks decided to delay more than $1 billion in loans to Brazil because it has failed to take steps needed to narrow its balance of payments deficit. Said De Vries: "One of the critical financial issues facing governments remains international debt." He urged cooperation by banks, governments and multinational agencies like the IMF to pump cash into nations that cannot raise enough through exports to repay their...