Word: delayed
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...adverse effect Harvard may feel from the proposed changes is a possible delay in preparing aid packages in April Coddington said. Such a delay would come about it the government is slow in making the regulators changes that the budget proposals will require, he explained...
...chunk of the saving would be provided by the payroll-tax hike and delay in benefit increases recommended last week by the Social Security commission. The rest would come from an $8 billion reduction in planned military spending already announced by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, skipping of a pay increase for federal employees, a delay in cost of living increases for federal civilian and military as well as Social Security pensioners, and further reductions in such social programs as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Overall, the aim is to freeze most nondefense spending at fiscal 1983 levels in dollar...
...million-member American Association of Retired Persons (A.A.R.P.) vehemently denounced provisions requiring a six-month delay in cost of living adjustments (COLA) for benefits and accelerating payroll tax hikes through 1990. A.A.R.P. is especially outraged by a requirement that, starting in 1984, will impose taxes on half of the benefits of individuals with annual incomes above $20,000 and couples above...
...contrast, the 4 million-member National Council of Senior Citizens and the 5,000-member National Council on the Aging, while objecting to the COLA delay, were relieved that the basic principles of Social Security had been preserved. Said one senior-citizen spokesman: "When you get legislators and White House leaders recognizing the kind of commitments the Government has made under Social Security, you don't want to upset that...
...Israel's strategy may be to delay implementation of the Reagan initiative until a year passes, and then it would be very difficult to implement it. But I have heard from the Israelis several times that they are going to withdraw from Lebanon and that they have no interest in staying there...