Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of the city's testing lab to quickly approve the three low-flush models available. To win city certification, a toilet must be able to flush eight handfuls of tissue. One model flunked when it flushed only seven. Los Angeles is considering imposing a six-month delay in enforcing the ordinance...
Dukakis campaign spokesman Leslie Dach shrugged off the possible delay in receipt of the $46 million...
Without a rain delay, it could scarcely be Wimbledon. But the pause in the third set with Graf on a rampage only stressed the powerful points, backhands and back of the hands that Steffi was making in rising up from her bland opening set to take nine of ten games going away. Tellingly, during the recess, Navratilova sought hurried treatment for a complaining leg muscle while Graf sprawled like a teenager in front of the TV. "Bodies warm up easier at 19 than they do at 31," sighed the woman finished...
...almost nine months following the Oct. 19, 1987, crash, U.S. financial markets failed to install any substantial safeguards to prevent a recurrence. The delay prompted calls for new regulations and frightened individual investors away from the stock market. Last week, in a surprising show of cooperation, the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange proposed safety measures in response to concerns raised by several Government studies of the crash...
...much in a military sense," since the division that was withdrawn could return on short notice. General Chai Chengwen, first deputy chairman of the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies (BIISS), a think tank connected with the National Defense Ministry, says, "The Soviet Union is looking for excuses to delay its withdrawal from Afghanistan." From Deng on down, Chinese spokesmen say that Kampuchea, still occupied by Moscow's Vietnamese allies, remains the main obstacle...