Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, was unenthusiastic about Witteveen's proposals. Treasury Secretary Simon opposes new recycling schemes, regarding them as stopgap measures. They can do no more than delay the day when the oil importers face the reality that they can no longer afford to pay the cartel's price. After all, the money that OPEC channels into a recycling facility is not donated; it is lent and must be repaid?with interest...
...General Services Administration this week added to the delay and uncertainty surrounding the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library by putting off publication of the environmental impact statement indefinitely...
...otherwise good health and far from overweight. She had not taken any of the hypertension medications that have just been linked with increased risk of breast cancer (see MEDICINE). True, she had not detected the lump in her breast by self-examination, which might have prevented a delay of days or weeks. But when a lump was found in her routine checkup at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, she consented to immediate exploratory surgery, with the all-important proviso that if malignancy was detected, the doctors could remove the breast...
...Washington, a federal judge agrees to delay by one day--until October 2--the sentencing of California lieutenant governor Ed Reinecke. Reinecke was convicted in July of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee during its investigation of the ITT-Republican National Convention scandal. The California constitution prohibits convicted felons from holding elective office, but Reinecke insists he is not convicted until he is sentenced. He is still lieutenant governor...
...mouth. But put him in front of an audience and he comes alive: his lids shoot up like window blinds letting the sun in, and his mustache dances expressively around his face. He cannot even stay quiet during breaks in the taping of his show. During a production delay, Freddie entertained the audience, with a burst of pent-up one-liners. "This is a minority show," he announced. "The next minority to get its own show will probably be the Eskimos-Let's Make a Seal." Then he laid into the Chinese: "I'm really afraid of them...