Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal government has reached an agreement with Columbia University, and will no longer delay its release of a multimillion dollar contract with the institution...
...among American preschool children; the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness estimates that one child out of every 20 has an eye problem that, if uncorrected, can interfere with his intellectual and psychological development. And frequently the problem is not detected until the child enters school. That unfortunate delay may be avoided if parents use a simple do-it-yourself eye test developed by the N.S.P.B. The child is simply asked to study E-shaped figures on a chart from a distance of 10 ft. If he can tell which way the arms of the E are pointing...
...measures must be taken. Cutting down the dead trees would reduce the danger by 85%. That would take three to six months and cost $5,000,000. Another way out is to reduce through controlled burning the amount of duff under the trees. In either case, however, delay could be perilous. Similar conditions, on a smaller scale, existed during a fire in 1970, and only the fact that the wind suddenly died down kept that blaze from becoming a holocaust...
...remembered a lunch date he had made with a friend. He had tried to postpone it until "after this reapportionment mess is over." His friend had laughed and said that the delay was unreasonable. "After that, it'll just be something else." Harris had agreed and made the appointment...
...Reputable estimates place the fighting at about the same level as it was last October, including Saigon's division-sized assaults on PRG positions. With 200,000 people made refugees since the ceasefire, we would be hard-pressed to call this peace. The very temporary North Vietnamese threat to delay the second prisoner exchange now completed and the attacks on North Vietnamese truce delegations in Hue and Saigon, parallel the daily truce violations by combat units. These violations of the specifics of the January 27 ceasefire agreement are perhaps no more serious than the thousands of skirmishes and battles that...