Word: delayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appointed day, turbulent winds of up to 80 m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into the flight," when the main engines shut down...
...were some way in this country, to get these things resolved more quickly. I don't mean just this plant, but the regulatory process in many ways has become so cumbersome [that] suddenly, before you know it, you're in a position where the cost and expense of the delay gets out of all proportion to the problems that are being addressed...
Crimson QB Don Allard and his charges mainly tried to engineer their first effective series of the contest, but a delay-of-game penalty and an incomplete pass halted the Crimson's efforts...
Following a delay of game penalty, Shulman split the uprights with a 27-yard field goal to give the Quakers a three-point edge...
...imaginary society are obsessed with the knowledge of their fates, they nevertheless demonstrate an ironically casual attitude towards death itself. Though each of the characters talks incessantly about "the moment" or the merits of marrying "a twenty" as opposed to "a forty," no one fears or attempts to delay the inevitable. No one, of course, except Fifty...