Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frustrations of SALT: One of my real frustrations has been that it's taken us so long. The delay has inhibited us from laying out the strengths of our position and from answering misleading or false statements by those who oppose SALT. One result is that it's given an impetus to the anti-SALT movement that's going to take us a while to push back. It would have been a lot easier in some ways if we'd been able to lay it all out as we went along...
...addressed simply as "Prime Minister." Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
Thanks to the substantial two-year delay in furnishing the reactor and its uranium, Giscard expects that by the new delivery date his nation's scientists will have perfected a nuclear fuel called "caramel," composed of 7%-enriched uranium that is unsuitable for making bombs. End result: lucrative contract is saved, international reputation is salvaged, Iraqis are appeased, if not pleased...
...government never investigated the calamity. Antiquated British laws made it difficult for victimized families to sue Distillers; the more than 350 who did were provided with lawyers who, in many cases, knew next to nothing about personal injury cases. Because of the law's delay and Distillers' refusal to offer more than niggardly settlements to the victims, the case dragged on into the '70s. All the while, the British press was banned from saying anything about it. The reason: under British "contempt of court" law, judges quickly impose fines and jail terms on editors and reporters...
...majority opinion, Justice White did warn judges to be careful that the discovery process is not used for harassment or delay, in press cases or any others. Indeed, it may be that lengthy pretrial discovery, as Lando endured, is a much greater threat to freedom of the press than questioning a reporter's state of mind. Said Columbia Law School Professor Benno Schmidt: "Knowing that someone could tie you up for days in pretrial discovery at huge expense might be enough reason not to publish a story...