Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After long delay, the drivers are carted off by bus to a room where they will take a written exam on trucking, the trucking industry and highway safety. Many feel a little resentful about this part of the event--they don't want a good driving score pulled down because they don't know the intricacies of Department of Transportation regulations. Meanwhile, judges and officials confer on rules and procedures, drink coffee and swap stories. It may rain...
...decade by illegally shipping in troops and military equipment. In the crises of 1964 and 1967, when Turkish Cypriots were being massacred, we wanted to go in and help, but our allies put obstacles in our way. Thus we hesitated. This time we knew we could not delay. If we did, then everything would have been lost for all Cypriots. The independent state of Cyprus would have ended, and de facto enosis [union with Greece] would have occurred...
Democratic National Committee in Washington, District of Columbia, for the purpose of securing political intelligence. Subsequent thereto, Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his close subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation of such illegal entry; to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities...
...Albert, Rodino began assembling a separate impeachment staff-which was to grow to 105, nearly half of them lawyers-and started looking for a chief counsel. To avoid any charge of partisanship, Rodino wanted an outsider and a Republican. For two months, while the Democratic leadership squirmed at the delay, Rodino consulted deans of law schools, judges, bar-association officials and leading attorneys before choosing John Doar in December...
After more than two years of wrangling and delay, the House of Representatives last week passed a compromise bill that would set up a new agency to regulate strip mining. Backed by Russell Train, Environmental Protection Agency chief, but opposed by the Interior Department, the Federal Energy Administration and the coal industry, the bill passed by a top-heavy pro-environment vote of 291 to 81. It now goes to a House-Senate conference for meshing with an even tougher Senate bill, which was passed last October...