Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They can be used to tactical advantage for other purposes. The statute of limitations may soon bar prosecution of some of Agnew's alleged offenses, so any delay resulting from an investigation into the leaks would be to Agnew's advantage. And Harvard Law Professor John Ely points out that it will be difficult for the defense attorneys "to investigate leaks without being given access to the entirety of the Government's case, which is wrong." The broad powers to fish for any information they want could also be used to harass the prosecution. Says Columbia...
...loudly leaked by J. Edgar Hoover. Furthermore, the inevitability of leaks and publicity in famous cases, as well as modern means of communication, has long since rendered obsolete the notion of the pristinely "ignorant" jury. Experience in such trials has demonstrated the precautions that can protect the process-a delay to let the pretrial publicity die down, especially careful questioning of potential jurors to weed out the biased and sequestering of the chosen jurors during the actual trial...
Hall suggested several reasons for the delay in filling these requests...
...didn't like the idea of poison gases," Fieser says, "but I swallowed my pride and took the assignment." However, during a delay in the work while new safety hoods were being installed in the Harvard labs to protect the scientists from the gases, Fieser got interested in incendiaries...
...year delay wreaked havoc on the Library Corporation's original goals. The general inflationary trend, combined with the skyrocketing increase in building costs, whittled the $27 million project to half its original size. Architect I.M. Pei designed a museum sheltered under an 85-foot high truncated glass pyramid, attached to a five-story semicircle housing the actual archives, the Kennedy Institute of Politics and the Kennedy School of Government...