Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apparently, the news organizations that agreed to delay the story--which included Time, Newsweek, CBS and NBC--took Colby's word that the operation was important. There is no evidence that any organization tried carefully to establish, on its own, exactly why the CIA needed to recover the codes and warheads from a 17-year-old sub that sank seven years ago. Most of them apparently took the Colby briefings on the importance of the whole affair at face value. Jack Anderson found some experienced naval sources who scoffed at the intelligence value of the sub, which is one reason...
...home. Later that evening, Kelly's father grew concerned and returned him to the hospital. This time doctors decided to operate and removed a large blood clot pressing on Kelly's brain. Had surgery been performed earlier, Kelly might well have made a good recovery. But the delay resulted in permanent brain damage, leaving him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. The boy's family sued the hospital, the pediatrician and the school district for negligence, and was awarded $4,025,000 in damages, one of the largest malpractice settlements on record...
Quilapayun was originally scheduled to perform here Wednesday night. The waiver delay forced the group to reschedule its entire 12 city U.S. tour...
...sciences, and therefore are unlikely to have any influence on the natural sciences and the humanities. This second part of the Bok-Rosovsky appeal is not only an insult to the advisory board members, who have no connection with minority recruiting other than their race, but will also further delay the crucial work that still needs to be done concerning the DuBois Institute itself...
...methods least damaging to the environment. If the Supreme Court decides that the Federal Government is the proprietor of the offshore areas, then revenues derived from them should be shared with the coastal states to compensate them for unavoided adverse effects. This program, if accepted, would facilitate rather than delay the nation's quest...