Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence that an investment today of $1-or $1 billion-will pay off in the future. In a highly inflationary economy, managers have no sound means of estimating the real cost of a long-term project, no way of knowing whether profits will cover that cost. So they delay or abandon investment projects that seem marginal or chancy. Instead, they put the company money into a smaller number of investments that seem to be sure winners-or into buying out existing companies rather than opening new branches...
...more serious objection: if a woman thinks that she is not pregnant when, in fact, she is, she may delay going to a physician. Such procrastination can be particularly dangerous in tubal pregnancies, which require early medical attention because the fallopian tube can rupture and possibly cause death...
...have good reason to hope that the goal can now be reached. I look forward to completing the urgent business at hand on this brief visit." The carefully chosen words were more optimistic, however, than the actual situation. Carter let it be known that he was willing to delay his return home for a day or two, and that Secretary of State Cyrus Vance planned to remain in the Middle East still longer...
...hold of a waiting supertanker, nothing happened. After 68 days of no petroleum exports at all, Iran had to wait another five minutes while technicians hurried to locate and repair an electrical malfunction in the pumping equipment. For the assembled crowd of government officials and oil workers, the delay was an embarrassment. For the oil-thirsty nations of the world, it merely emphasized the perils of counting on anything to go as planned in Iran these days...
While a case-by-case approach may appear on its face to be a fair and rational one, in practice it has been a prescription for obfuscation and delay. First, the entire process is dependent on data and information the corporations themselves provide. While most major companies provide information on employment practice, few (if any) are willing to provide information on taxes paid to the South African government, sales of strategic products and services, etc. In fact, corporations are precluded under South African law from disclosing sales to military and law enforcement agencies...