Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such planning inevitably takes time, which means expense and delay. Because of NEPA, the $3 billion trans-Alaska pipeline remains just an idea; not a foot of pipe has been laid. The Cross-Florida Barge Canal is a half-built, abandoned ditch. Plans to link the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers gather dust on engineers' shelves. Ironically, even the federal program to curb water pollution is stalled because of the paper work required by NEPA (some 20,000 separate permits might be required...
...Brel played its four-day run this past weekend. Today's article was originally scheduled for Friday; due to a reading period mix-up, it appears today. Though the writer regrets the delay, the article still remains the history of a remarkable drive for perfection...
...Charles Duke's jubilant Southern drawl crackled across 240,000 miles of space last week, all the world breathed a sigh of relief. After a nerve-racking delay of nearly six hours, during which NASA officials came close to calling off Apollo 16's lunar landing, Astronauts Duke and John Young had brought the landing craft Orion to a nearly perfect touchdown only 200 yards off target in the moon's mountain-ringed Descartes region. It was man's fifth successful landing on the lunar surface, and the first in the highlands, the moon...
...truly sincere in his desire to have the occupation ended peacefully, he must induce the Corporation to alter its decision-even if that requires his resignation. The Daly Delay stalling strategy was effective in ending the occupation of a building at the University of Chicago, but there is little indication that it can be applied successfully here. The occupiers will probably be eligible to file for homestead before they would leave Mass Hall to Bok and Angola to Gulf. As Randall Robinson puts it. "This our turf now. The University is in exile. Now we are prepared to confer...
Olmsted said the "Cliffe crew was somewhat out of condition and hampered by a 41-minute delay in cold weather and the necessity of using a borrowed boat...