Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minimum income for working poor. Ribicoff had begun to wonder some time ago whether a vast program of supplementing the pay of low-income families should be put into effect without being tested first on a substantial scale. The White House opposed massive testing because it might cause delay. The Administration's fumble gave Ribicoff the opportunity to insist on a test. The trial would be held in sites still to be selected, and the full plan would be in effect in 1974-about seven months later than HEW had planned-unless Congress finds the trial unsatisfactory and vetoes...
...Nixon Administration has deliberately stalled for nearly two months in seeking the necessary congressional approval of the dollar devaluation that it agreed to last December. Reason: the President and Treasury Secretary John Connally believed that they could use the delay to wring a few further trade concessions from Japan and the Common Market nations. It was a high-stakes gamble, since their plan ran the risk of undermining confidence in the entire new system of currency exchange rates worked out in the Smithsonian agreement. Last week that system began to teeter, and the Administration decided to take what it could...
...lies not with the Rogers Committee (who have had to carry out an unpleasant, long and thankless job) but with the procedures that have governed their work. (Let me also state in passing what should be obvious: I am most anxious for a speedy resolution of this appeal; the delay up to now--more than a year and a half have passed since I filed my "brief"--has in no way been of my doing; the only reason I am taking an action at this point that may lead to further delay is that I feel very strongly about...
...hands, in the hope that you will ask yourselves why what would seem to be a relatively simple matter has taken over eighteen months, and then was done improperly. I hope you can acknowledge the need for re-intervention at this point, realize the underlying reasons for difficulties, and delay up to this point, and come up with a with resolution that is worthy of an academic body...
...DOOR to the inner office of suite 427 in the Old Senate Building opened. Brooke, dressed in a black three-piece suit, greeted me, and after apologizing for the further delay of our conversation, hurried over to the Senate to cast a vote...