Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delay any broader impeachment move by stalling in the delivery of requested evidence, continuing to raise legal technicalities, and resorting to time-consuming court action. Delay could erode public interest in the whole sordid scandal. Stalling could also push the crucial impeachment vote closer to the November elections?thus making it more risky for any incumbent Congressman?and perhaps even cause the problem to be carried over into the next session of Congress...
Sirica asked a disturbing question: Had the committee considered delaying its impeachment investigation until after the trials of the President's aides? Since those trials have now been set to start on Sept. 9, delay until then would be an intolerable disservice to a public that is understandably impatient over the slowness in deciding Nixon's fate. Doar replied that the committee has not considered any such delay-a point that Sirica may merely have wanted on the record to express his concern about pre-trial publicity involving the defendants (see THE LAW). Sirica gave no indication...
...that job, an immediate question arises-particularly in notorious cases. Can the jurors' impartiality be sustained in the face of a barrage of publicity? A judge can reduce the danger by imposing a gag on out-of-court comments by all trial participants, and he can sometimes delay the trial until a superheated atmosphere cools. But with Watergate, it is likely that the various juries will have to be sequestered in hotels under the constant eye of bailiffs who censor every outside contact...
...even when women artists are able to cope with a family, their family commitments tend to delay their artistic development. The Institute plans a special show for next year that will focus on late bloomers--women whose artistic styles didn't mature until late in their careers because they couldn't devote much time to their work until their children were grown...
George Seimor of the CUNY's Graduate School Library said yesterday that he did not believe that the library's delay in cataloguing the collection was the real reason Buttinger withdrew...