Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They must have known Johnson was planning to release the agenda for the new disarmament talks worked out between U. S. and Russian representatives the day the Warsaw Pact forces marched into Czechoslovakia. These were talks the Russians were reportedly very eager to start. The invasion was bound to delay ratification of the non-proliferation treaty which was waiting in the Senate as well as the start of Moscow-New York flights by Pan American Airlines and Aeroflot scheduled for this year...
...dismissing the Town of Milton's suit to block the extension of MBTA rapid transit lines from Ashmont to Mattapan, Judge Frank W. Tomasello apparently ended a four-year delay in construction of the library...
...problem of empty seats persists. airlines may well have to cut back on some flights to increase operating efficiency. In this, they will be getting an extra push from the Federal Aviation Administration, which has tackled the delay problem by proposing traffic-flow limits at congested airports. Nowhere is the saturation of the market-and sky-more glaring than on the run between Chicago and New York, which, with 110 daily flights each way, is one of the world's most heavily traveled routes. United's president, George E. Keck, whose company is one of the route...
...chasing his man through hotel lobbies, in between sessions at a television studio and on the warm-up mound in the stadium bullpen. His biggest break came when the brakes locked on a plane that was bringing the Tiger star from Boston to New York. McLain fumed at the delay, but there he was-trapped in the cabin with Kane for one long hour, with nothing to do except talk about himself...
...happened? The explanation lies mainly in an unexpectedly sharp reduction in monthly draft calls (the September quota was 12,200, compared with 44,000 last May) and the sluggishness of the Selective Service bureaucracy. Local draft boards did not begin reclassifying deferred students until June. A month's delay is allowed for appeals. And, while physical exams usually take another month to process, all physicals were suspended in July and August on grounds of a paper work and funding squeeze. Some boards are also waiting until present deferments run out, most in September and October, to begin reclassifying students...