Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years they have been able to delay the building of the Alaska pipeline. Their arguments were that it would interfere with the sex habits of reindeer, damage the permafrost, pose a hazard because of the danger of earthquakes and, finally, that there might be oil spillage...
...only over policy planning and the administration of allocation programs but even over fuel prices. Among many other agencies, FEA will swallow the Cost of Living Council's energy division, which controls prices for gasoline, heating oil and other petroleum products. That should end the type of bureaucratic delay that recently held up for three months an urgently needed mandatory allocation plan for fuels-a plan that, significantly, was originally drafted by Simon. As Simon explained to TIME Correspondent Sam Iker...
...likes of Perry Mason, Owen Marshall and Billy Jim Hawkins have done over the years for TV, it seems only fair that TV should contribute to the administration of justice. A few states, including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, already make some use of video-taped testimony to avoid delay for both the court and the witness; after testimony is recorded at the witness's convenience, it can be introduced at any time. But such piecemeal use of TV is timid indeed compared to an undertaking that concluded last week in Sandusky, Ohio...
...deciding factor may be not the environmental objections to the project, but an economic and practical obsolescence that has developed over the ten-year delay...
...seen sales fall 11% below a year ago because of climbing gas prices and fear of worsening shortages. General Motors is going ahead with plans to temporarily close 16 plants and lay off 105,000 workers, despite pleas last week from the United Auto Workers that it at least delay the cutback until after Christmas. Chrysler Corp. followed suit, ordering brief shutdowns of ten North American assembly plants that will idle 44,000 workers...