Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans were trying to decide whether to seek a delay in the beginning of the debate on the nomination, which has drawn widespread opposition from Democrats...
NUNN'S leadership of the committee was both laudable and courageous, as well as desperately needed. Though many leading Republicans claimed the committee was unfairly prolonging Tower's confirmation based on unsubstantiated rumors of drinking and womanizing, Nunn's lengthy delay was warranted and reflected well on the strengths of the Senate as a deliberative body...
...earnings at some firms by half and put others into the red. As corporations are forced to account for their retirement obligations, many are expected to cut such benefits for their present workers. Corporations will have until 1992 to submit their arguments against the plan or plead for a delay...
Nonetheless, Gesell accepted the accord, Thornburgh got the Supreme Court to vacate the stay he had requested, and everything seemed set for the trial to begin. But hardly to run smoothly: the North defense can be expected to seize every opportunity to delay or perhaps scuttle the trial. And such opportunities will be legion. Lawyer Sullivan ("I'm not a potted plant") has asserted that classified information "pervades" the charges against North. The heart of his defense is that North acted solely on orders from, or at least with the permission of, higher authority -- and that the orders or permission...
Thrift executives pressured Congress to let them fight back. In 1980 Congress lifted restrictions on interest rates that S & Ls could pay. But regulators waited a year before freeing the other side of the balance sheet by allowing S & Ls to grant adjustable-rate mortgages. The delay left the thrifts in a bind, because interest rates had rocketed from 13% at the end of 1979 to more than 20% a year later. Thrifts were collecting interest rates of around 8% or less on their 30-year mortgages, while paying double-digit interest to new depositors. During 1981 some...