Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving an eight-year prison term. Though Hoffa's resourceful lawyers were expected to seek still another delay, even they were losing heart. Asked if he could keep Jimmy out of jail much longer, one of them replied: "I doubt...
...threat to welsh on debt payments, most of his debtors considered it a desperate act of bravado, designed to let his creditors know that he cannot pay them all off -and that he will give first priority to those who bother him least about the delay. The plain fact is that Nasser could not pay even if he wanted to. His country is nearly bankrupt, and he hopes to distract his people from that looming fact by blaming Egypt's troubles on others...
...those used on meat thermometers, indicating the temperature deep within the Styrofoam. "We checked her temperature every hour," says Feidler, who found it rising slowly but no faster than anticipated. "I would be less than truthful if I didn't say that I had apprehensions." A five-hour delay in landing was caused by an East Coast snowstorm. At New York, customs officials, alerted by Washington, passed the suitcase without opening it. A private plane flew it to the capital; there it was taken to the National Gallery, unwrapped, found to be at precisely 68°, and placed...
Quarry on Mars. There are, however, some distinct limitations on the capabilities of Bradley's mechanical man. Beyond about 30,000 miles, admits the imaginative engineer, round-trip time delay in the transmission and receipt of telemetry signals becomes a distinct drawback. "Realtime" human activity is impossible. If a telefactor operating on the surface of Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even...
...Bodily of the California State Department of Public Health pointed out that there is no federal law to prevent a doctor's signing up with a cut-rate laboratory thousands of miles away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results" on specimens that they had never examined, even in such life-and-death matters as cancer smears...