Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...message that Tom King carried to Washington last week was one of outrage and anger. The British government, warned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, was distinctly unhappy about what it sees as congressional attempts to delay the approval and water down the terms of a new supplement to the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Britain. King reminded members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Thatcher had allowed U.S. planes to attack Libya from British bases. She had also backed U.S. demands for a strong antiterrorist stance by the European Community. Now, King...
...AIDS virus, which has been found to reproduce thousands of times faster than normal viruses, indicating its deadly nature, has a strange, built-in delay mechanism...
...well as their dealings with political candidates and with the IRS. Impatient with the church's unwillingness to comply, the judge charged that the Catholic groups had "willfully misled" the plaintiffs and had "made a travesty of the court process." Nonetheless, at week's end he agreed to delay the huge fines, giving church lawyers until May 16 to appeal the contempt citation...
...history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last November...
Lenders report that some consumers are so intent on getting the best possible interest rate that they delay closing a deal to wait for one more dip. Says George Engelke, executive vice president of Astoria Federal Savings in New York City: "It's good, old-fashioned playing the market...