Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Puking Hypocrisy. The delay and the growing debate led some Republicans to accuse Democrats of letting the nomination simmer for partisan reasons. Said Senate Republican Whip Robert P. Griffin of Michigan: "It's hard to tell where the serious questions about this nomination leave off and the politics begin." Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called the controversy "mewling and puking hypocrisy" and added: "I don't think that he ought to be convicted for his generosity...
According to his intimates, Heath was actually ready to step down in favor of his friend, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, 56, who won a measure of fame as a skillful negotiator between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Heath's delay in announcing his intention, however, allowed opposition to build and a whole pack of new contenders to emerge, including Sir Keith Joseph, shadow Home Secretary; Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the shadow cabinet's spokeswoman on housing and environment; and Edward du Cann, a former party chairman. With the prospect of an internal power struggle erupting, Heath changed...
Harvard is stuck with the law now, and there is little recourse but compliance. For the moment, the extent of the University's resistance will probably be a Faculty resolution asking Congress for a delay in the November 19 implementation date...
Ingram was a member of a study group of professors from several major universities, which released a report last Thursday recommending a delay until 1980 in implementing federal standards...
James A. Fay, professor of Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T. and one of the report's authors, opposed the committee's majority recommendation to delay the federal standards...