Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard ship cases, steeper excise taxes on pleasure crafts and high-horsepower auto mobiles, gasoline and home-fuel rationing. The Democrats also propose establishing a new, independent agency to replace the Council on Wage and Price Stability. The agency would be empowered to issue subpoenas, hold extensive hearings, delay price increases and in selective cases impose controls...
...easing of restrictions on utilities' coal burning will be sought?another modification of the Clean Air Act. The White House wants to postpone installation of scrubbers?smoke-filtering devices?on stacks. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality have accepted a delay in the scrubber deadlines, set unrealistically...
...company asked the state air-pollution control board, the city and the federal Environmental Protection Agency for first one six-month and then another six-month extension. Even though Gary's air quality was far below federal health standards, the extensions were granted. But to get the second delay, the company agreed to a consent decree in court, promising to finish...
Congress was following the lead of Florida, California and Arizona, among others. Like the laws in those states, the federal measure has some provisos. Any delay sought by the defendant will not count in the time limit. Extensions will be permitted in cases requiring complex pretrial proceedings like psychiatric observation of the accused...
...When 1975 was rung in last week at Britain's old Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is located on the meridian where the earth's time zones begin, it arrived precisely one second late. For official timekeepers everywhere, including the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S., the delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that...