Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School, said that enrollment figures may continue to rise during the next week until they reach last year's total. He said that a delay in the registration of many students may have been caused by the coincidence of the Independence Day holidays and the registration period...
...Appeals Court had granted a delay on Popkin's sentence earlier this year pending the Supreme Court's ruling on Caldwell. At the same time, it guaranteed a hearing between the Caldwell ruling and the end of Popkin's extension...
...biggest headache is a $752 million order for U.S. Navy general-purpose amphibious assault vessels called LHAS (for Landing Helicopter Assault ships). After the company fell 18 months behind in construction, the Navy slashed the order from nine ships to five. Navy brass caused some of the delay and increased costs by ordering changes in the design. As a result, under the terms of its agreement, the Navy may owe more for the five LHAS it will get than it had planned to spend for all nine. The two parties are currently renegotiating the contract...
President Richard Nixon first invited Luis Echeverria, the President of Mexico, to visit Washington back in 1970, but not until this spring was the trip firmly scheduled. Echeverria's countrymen interpreted the delay as just one more sign that Latin America ranks disgracefully low on Washington's scale of priorities. The Mexicans were doubly miffed last December when Nixon described Brazil, a military dictatorship but economically booming, as a model for Latin America. When the White House let it be known that Nixon would give Echeverria some moon rocks on his visit to the U.S. last week, Mexico...
...four-and even a three-day week, but, said Superintendent Charles Wolfe, "we know from experience that youngsters forget so much in four days that it takes a day to get reacquainted with their work when they come back." Instead, the 13-man board voted last week to delay the opening of school two weeks in September, to give students a six-week Christmas vacation, and to end the school year on April 19, two months earlier than usual. In all, it plans to operate the schools for only 117 days, one-third less than the state-mandated minimum...