Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect of asking for a referendum is to delay the decision on ROTC," Lipset explained. "If it turns out that people want to vote at the meeting, then I don't want to hold up the action...
...Overnight Delay. A host of remedies, some of them far out, have been proposed. None of them are foolproof. Locking the cockpit door is a usual precaution, but a gunman can still force a stewardess to relay orders to the pilot by intercom. The International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations plans a resolution boycotting flights to any country that fails to release a skyjacked plane within 48 hours, but of the airlines flying to Cuba, only Mexicana, Iberia and Air Canada have I.F.A.L.P.A. pilots. In any case, the Cubans have so far been careful to free skyjacked planes...
Secret Vote. To bring some sense out of this anarchy, the White Paper would empower the government to 1) order a union to hold a secret vote when a major strike is threatened, 2) delay walkouts by ordering a 28-day "conciliation pause" and 3) impose settlements in jurisdictional disputes that union leaders are unable to resolve among themselves. Trade unionists who defy a government order would be subject to fines. On the other hand, the paper turned down the plea of management groups that all labor contracts should be made legally binding...
...years that Crommelynck, 37, and his brother Piero, 34, had been privileged to print the master's occasional engravings. The brothers even found it worthwhile to keep a small printing press in an atelier near Picasso's house, enabling the impatient artist to view proofs without delay. From those earlier calls, Crommelynck fully expected to run off proofs of one or possibly two new engravings-all Picasso ever seemed to produce at a time-and be on his way back to Paris in a day or two at most...
...suit accuses Detroit of "hindering and delaying" the development of antipollution devices as far back as 1953. It focuses on a "blow-by" connection that cuts down the outflow of hydro carbons and carbon monoxide by feeding unburned gasoline in the crankcase back into the engine. The blow-by, developed by G.M., costs the consumer from $5 to $10. It has been used on a royalty-free basis on all cars, starting with 1963 models. According to the Justice Department, the automakers could have installed the blow-by connectors a year earlier but agreed among them selves on a delay...