Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original logic behind the price freeze was that it would delay and spread out price increases. Economically, that would ease the pain for the consumer; politically, that would soften the blow to President Nixon. During the rest of this year, food prices are likely to rise 3% or 4%-an annual rate of 6% or 8%. In fact, so much beef is being held back now that the cattlemen may get burned. If the Administration hangs tough and the sellers' strike continues, great herds of cattle will hit the markets after Sept. 12-and beef prices could go down...
SENATOR ERVIN and the Committee should take advantage of their opportunity to make certain that this kind of delay does not happen again. They should prepare legislation to create a permanent organization to investigate and report on election scandals. So that this organization would itself be out of the realm of political electioneering, it would most appropriately fit as a special branch of the Federal court system. Three judges might be a proper number for this unique tribunal, which would act as an investigating grand jury, with complete power to issue subpoenas, grant immunity, and deliver indictments as it deemed...
...unwieldy instruments up to a foot long, and exercise extreme caution for fear of removing or damaging healthy-and irreplaceable-vocal tissue. The patient, who must usually endure considerable post-operative pain, often has to forgo even the satisfaction of complaining; any talking may irritate his throat and delay his recovery. Now doctors at Boston University Medical Center are finding a way around both problems. They have found that a carbon-dioxide laser, which produces a high-intensity beam of invisible infra-red light, can quickly remove many polyps, cysts and cancers from vocal cords. Moreover, the laser operations, which...
Tichanuk complained that both city manager Corcoran and the city council were using delay tactics to "avoid and dodge the issues." He said that the union has had three appointments with the city manager this year when "he simply didn't show up." Corcoran could not be reached for comment...
...coast, and who personally mixed up the kool aid for the acid test for Kesey, the Dead, and the Merry Pranksters in 1967. Now Owsley the brilliant technician had helped design the sound system for the Grateful Dead, which had two innovations -- cross phasing and a digital delay unit. Cross phasing is the placing of two microphones aimed at the singer so that, after the sound comes out of the mixing unit, the voice of the singer would come out of a speaker purified of the music amplification. The digital delay unit compensates for the difference in the speed...