Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Engagingly enough, the first new bestselling work of fiction in the U.S. for the new year of 1974 turns out to be a fine, small, odd book set in a Canadian Indian village. It was written more than eight years ago, and considering the delay, one might assume that the manuscript, scribbled by some tribal chieftain, had perhaps moldered under a totem pole until discovered by a nosy anthropologist or Royal Canadian Mountie. Not so. The author is an energetic, white-haired American woman, now 72, named Margaret Craven. The history of her book, from benign neglect to some national...
...seemingly paradoxical move makes good bureaucratic and political sense. The chance that rationing will prove unavoidable cannot be dismissed, to put it mildly, and getting the machinery ready takes so long that the earliest Simon's plan could go into effect would be March 1. Any further delay in preparing the program could have produced chaos next spring if the fuel shortage does not ease as much as the Administration hopes. Politically, the stand-by plan gives the Administration an ace in the hole in dealing with legislators who have often accused it of fumbling with the energy crisis...
Last week Detroit got some extra time; Congress approved a measure that extended both deadlines by one year and authorized the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to delay it for another year if he deems it necessary to do so. The automakers can use the grace period. They have already gone about as far toward cleaning up their cars as they can, without introducing costly new technology. GM, for example, reports that it has reduced emissions of hydrocarbons by 80%, carbon monoxide by 70% and nitrogen oxides by 40% since 1967. Such progress, gained by making adjustments...
That seemed a bearable load, with the TriStar flying and getting high ratings from airline executives-until the fuel shortage hit. Faced with sharp curtailments in jet-fuel supplies, airlines have canceled hundreds of flights and delayed orders for aircraft. Lockheed had expected to collect around $ 150 million in cash in 1974, as final payment on deliveries of nine TriStars to Eastern Air Lines; now the deliveries, and payments, have been postponed until 1975 and 1976. Pacific Southwest Airlines is taking a four-month delay on two more TriStars (price: $20 million each). On top of that, Japan...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led the fight within the Administration to delay passage of the Trade Reform Bill as long as the amendments were attached. Kissinger has argued that placing these kinds of conditions on Soviet trade amounts to an attempt to "transform the domestic structure" of the Soviet Union. He is worried that the amendments could hurt the chances of Soviet cooperation in maintaining the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, and he feels that secret diplomacy will be more effective than public pressure in persuading the Soviets to liberalize their emigration policies. Either because...