Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even at the current rate, Z.P.G. is still some 70 years off-and it may never come at all. One factor in the delay is that so many girls were born during the baby boom that the number of females in the prime childbearing ages will go on climbing until the early 1980s...
...exhaust emissions on '75 and '76 model cars will be all but impossible to meet. For all their efforts, they failed to make their plight quite believable to William D. Ruckelshaus. Earlier this year his Environmental Protection Agency summarily rejected the automakers' application for a delay in the deadline. Last week, in a major change of strategy, General Motors disclosed that its scientists were farther along in meeting the new requirements than company officials had previously admitted. But now, G.M. officers said, it is time for the Government and the oil industry to take some lumps...
...proposed agreement calls for the Houses to observe a "two year delay after the first commercial showing of a film in Cambridge before it is shown by a film society...
...ultimatum. Leonard suggestion was I should sue the University which was confirmed by a telephone call to me from James Sharaf, attorney in the office of the General Counsel of the University. The purpose of this harassment evidently is to goad me to sue the University in order to delay the implementation of the HEW findings by protracted litigation. All this, of course, has been done before in many civil rights cases. Unfortunately. The Crimson seems to be unaware of the implications...
...antiwar movement, which first bestirred students, raced ahead unhindered until 1970 when Nixon's strategy of delay finally exhausted its numbers but for occasional tantrums such as Mayday 1971. Now, after a two-year breather, students are looking for new issues and new expressions of their biases--and this search hinges on a certain thoughtfulness...