Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judson Lovingood, deputy manager of the shuttle projects office at Marshall, set up a teleconference among engineers and managers at * the Cape, Huntsville and in Utah to discuss the O-ring problem. Before it began, Lovingood got the impression that Thiokol was concerned enough to seek a flight delay. He asked his boss, Stanley Reinartz, shuttle projects manager at Marshall who was then at the Cape, to tell Arnold Aldrich, the overall shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, who was also in Florida, that a flight delay was likely. But Reinartz decided to wait until...
Botha said Namibia's 1 million people "have waited long enough for independence," a delay he claimed "cannot be laid at South Africa's door...
...leave, as history professors frequently do, a course that was previously offered every two years must wait an additional year before it is taught. Waiting two years to take a course is quite an imposition on students, but the burden can be eased if students were aware of the delay in advance...
...intervening years, every American President except Dwight D. Eisenhower has endorsed the pact, and 96 nations, including the Soviet Union, have confirmed it. Last week the Senate finally approved the treaty by a vote of 83 to 11. Said Majority Leader Robert Dole: "We have waited too long to delay further...
...Sandinistas' plan, suggest the Reaganauts, is to delay action by Congress through the rest of the dry season, which lasts until June, while the regime undertakes an intense effort to cripple the rebels once and for all. According to the CIA, the Sandinistas are staging a sophisticated "disinformaton" campaign designed to convince liberal legislators that the contras are a bloodthirsty band of freebooters. Skeptics assume that despite the Administration's hype, Nicaragua's efforts are no different from the lobbying routinely done by other foreign nations...