Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis can afford to delay, and the Arabs cannot bring themselves to do otherwise. Even the Arabs' hopes for the Palestinian fedayeen as a force that could break the impasse have faded, although, as one U.S. diplomat observes, "We will have the terrorist problem in the Middle East as long as the Palestinian problem is not solved." Of particular concern is the uncontrollable Black September group, which some fedayeen leaders in Beirut describe as "not an organization but a state of mind." They mean that various groups of fedayeen who become disgruntled may temporarily declare themselves members of Black...
...apply pressure, Panama drafted a resolution calling on the U.S. to draft "without delay" a new treaty that would guarantee Panama "sovereignty over all its territory." To Scali's dismay, this move won the support of 13 of the 15 delegates (Briiain abstained). Scali, who argued that the soverignty question was a bilateral matter between the U.S. and Panama and therefore beyond the U.N.'s purview, finally raised his right hand and cast the third U.S. veto in its 27 years in the United Nations...
Peter Helwig, the member of the City's Planning and Development Department who presented the petition on behalf of the CPB, said after the hearing that business interests opposed to the proposed zoning changes might have decided to delay their criticisms until the City Council holds its public hearing on the petition...
Stubbins submitted his final design of the library in February of this year. Bok was scheduled to approve the design on February 20, but decided to delay his approval a week. The reasons for the postponement were not revealed; Bok would only say that he "wanted to look into all the alternatives and serve aesthetic as well as functional needs," and would not specify what details of the design were in dispute...
...originally slated to approve the library plans February 20, but he decided to delay his approval a week because, he said, "We want to consider aesthetic as well as functional aspects of the plans." He approved the plans on February 27, and showed them to the Corporation the following week for its approval...