Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aides, including Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, were reluctant to give that kind of authority to Rockefeller men. Rumsfeld's prime candidate for Cannon's job was Harvard Law Professor Phillip Areeda, who late last week announced his resignation as counsel to the President. The delay was awkward for Rockefeller. Two weeks ago, he met Ford for an hour behind the closed doors of the Oval Office-and Ford overruled his advisers. He saved for the dinner the announcement that the Vice President's choices had been accepted...
Kissinger is anxious to work out another agreement, at least between Israel and Egypt, before the U.N. peacekeeping mandates come up for renegotiation in the spring. If he is successful, Syria's President Hafez Assad might even agree to delay a resumption of the full-scale Geneva conference long enough for Kissinger to work out second-stage agreements on the Golan Heights. Sadat desperately wants Kissinger to succeed. If he can work out a Sinai deal, it will justify Sadat's argument that a moderate approach can recover territory...
...page 19). Among other things, he has proposed setting a national goal of 2.6 million housing starts a year, including 2 million federally subsidized units for low-and middle-income families, creating a temporary agency to provide emergency capital funds to business and giving the Government the authority to delay wage and price hikes. Such views place him in the Democratic mainstream, though Republican critics regard him as a big spender who promises more than he can deliver...
...Monday morning, Jan. 6, less than a week after William O. Douglas had suffered a stroke, the eight other Justices met sadly in the Supreme Court building. Personal reactions aside, they were faced with serious problems posed by Douglas' absence. The Justices decided to delay hearing arguments on five cases. Each one was picked not so much for its importance, but because without Douglas the others feared a tie vote that would render high-court consideration meaningless; it would simply leave a lower-court decision in effect...
...little irritated at the delay," Essick said. "(Princeton coach Bill) Farley must have been hiding in the showers when they were trying to start the 200 free...