Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday's takeover of the building was staged to protest the delay in Dwight W. Allen's decision on Paul Chandler's application for the Spring 1973 semester. Czerni R. Brasuell, a member of the Alliance's executive committee, said yesterday. "We also wanted to force Allen to decide before the semester ends," she added...
...South America. It's Howard Hughes. Or . . . Ladislas Farago is just a fancy new pen name for Clifford Irving. The allusions were inevitable. Farago himself expected them. Indeed, when Clifford Irving's hoax autobiography of the recluse billionaire was exposed ten months ago, Farago decided to delay his research on Bormann until the din died down. "I said to myself," he recalled last week, "no matter what I'm going to do, this is going to be regarded in the same category. Even if I bring Martin Bormann back with me personally and exhibit...
...courts have interpreted an IRS rule in different ways," said one judge. "Things like that have to be straightened out quickly." Yet even when the Justices have an obvious conflict between circuit courts to resolve, or an overwhelmingly important constitutional question to decide, there is often a tendency to delay, to be cautious, to allow the controversy to ripen. "We benefit greatly from the wisdom of the circuit courts," says the same judge. "Even when I'm inclined to hear a novel case, I often vote to deny just so we can get more input, more perspective from...
...declined to hear a number of desegregation cases that were very similar to Brown v. Board of Education. "If the issue had been decided earlier," he said, "it might have gone the other way or, more likely, it would have produced a divided court. In the long run, the delay was probably beneficial for the country." Often the decision whether to accept or reject a case hinges on a Justice's feeling about how the court will collectively rule on the matter. Explains one: "If I suspected a good decision by a lower court would be affirmed, making...
Last night's talk came after a one-hour delay during which Currier House residents scrambled to assemble a make-shift public address system to cover the overflow crowd. Reading from a prepared text Buckley quickly smoothed the impatient audience with a anecdotes of his trip to China...