Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cautious Optimism. Their chief task was to get the process of détente moving again after almost a year's delay. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. failed to reach agreement at the Moscow summit last summer, in part because Brezhnev was apparently stalling until the Watergate crisis was resolved, in part because each side feared that the other was demanding permanent nuclear superiority. After visiting Moscow in October, Kissinger said that he was cautiously optimistic that a permanent SALT accord can be signed when Brezhnev visits Washington next summer. To that end, Ford and Brezhnev spent several hours...
Last Monday, the Agassiz Neighborhood, next door to Harvard and filled with Harvard owned properties, won a major victory in the battle to control its own destiny. After weeks of delay, legal maneuverings and postponed final votes, the Cambridge City Council voted to down-zone two blocks in the Neighborhood. Down-zoning reduces the allowable density of future development, in this case, reducing the maximum density from an allowable 144 apartments per acre to 36 per acre. The lower figure is still higher than the density presently existing in Agassiz, which is equal to the City average of about...
...Jannuzi is correct. TIME regrets both the error and the delay in setting the record straight...
...school group advocating freedom of sex information. Civil liberties groups are also leaning toward the concept that teen-agers should be able to get medical services where sex is concerned, without involving their parents. In a U.S. district court, two pregnant 16-year-old Boston girls recently won a delay in enforcement of a state law that requires them to obtain parental permission for abortions. But despite some progress, the medical rights of those under 18 remain unclear, particularly when it comes to preventing or ending pregnancy...
...religious beliefs, be among the first group of initiates, the Minister of Agriculture argued that the two-month program would interfere with his efforts to increase farm production in the drought-stricken country. The Education Minister also objected that the initiation of teachers would interrupt schooling. A seven-month delay was granted, but this July a thousand Chadian officials were sent south to Yondo camps...