Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion a year." The nearly $30 billion spent annually on arms research and development is more than "is spent on the problems of energy, health, education and food combined." Does the money buy greater security? McNamara asked. "No. At these exaggerated levels, only greater risk, greater danger, and greater delay in getting on with life's real purposes...
After a meeting of the Cabinet, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi requested that the new U.S. Ambassador to Iran, Walter L. Cutler, delay his arrival hi Tehran until relations could be "clarified." Next day Yazdi rioted that the Senate resolution was not binding on the Carter Administration. He characterized it as a "response to Zionist interests...
...equipment. Corporations are expected to increase capital investments this year by 16%, but the rise is a mixed blessing. If, as expected, capital spending continues fairly strong through the early part of the recession, it will help cushion the slump. But if a capital investment boom develops, it could delay the recession and ultimately make it worse...
...monopolizing the "general purpose" computer business. Specifically, IBM was charged with trying to force customers to buy entire IBM systems for commercial use, and with keeping competitors out of the market. A decade later U.S. vs. IBM is still droning on, a costly monument to the law's delay. The frustrating case, Yale Professor Robert Bork told TIME'S conference, is the antitrust division's "Viet Nam." Thomas Barr, the Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorney who is leading the IBM defense, explained at the meeting why he sees no light at the end of the tunnel...
...date information. So last January-ironically on the tenth anniversary of the case-the Government made yet another discovery request for current information and IBM's plans for the future. IBM is resisting; it argues that this third round of discovery would bare its trade secrets, and further delay the trial...