Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year alone was 6% - twice the anticipated rise. As a result, in late September and early October the Post Office suffered some snarls and snafus - particularly in Chicago, the nation's busiest relay point. Even after that crisis abated, one large direct-mail company reported a ten-day delay in sending third-class mail from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...Hertz take so long to hit back? Carl Ally, 42, head of a four-year-old agency that bears his name and now holds the Hertz account, explains the delay this way: "If a little guy comes up to you on the street and tugs at your coat and you swat him, everybody will say, 'You shouldn't have done that.' But if you walk on for 14 blocks and he keeps tugging, then people think you're justified to punch...
...statement would have opposed the Inner Belt only on conditional grounds. It would have suggested that the original problems that prompted the planning of the Belt--almost two decades ago--have changed considerably. As a result, the statement would have urged the state to delay any firm decision on the expressway until a comprehensive new transportation study of the metropolitan area could be made...
...ancient Greeks dreaded the sudden squalls of the wine-dark Aegean Sea, where even the mighty Odysseus was sometimes washed overboard during his voyages. Modern Greeks are less superstitious. Despite gale warnings one evening last week, Captain Emmanuel Vernikos, 50, decided not to delay the departure of the Heraklion, his 8,900-ton auto-and-passenger ferry on its scheduled thrice-weekly 190-mile crossing from the Cretan city of Canea to Piraeus, Athens' port on the Greek mainland...
...freezing of federal funds will delay the controversial Inner Belt Highway somewhat, by stalling land acquisitions in Roxbury, according to the Boston Globe. But the announcement of the Cambridge segment of the eight-lane highway is still expected in the next three or four weeks...