Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freeze. But a group of unions representing 650,000 postal workers went to court seeking a ruling that Nixon's ban on pay raises already agreed to in collective bargaining is unconstitutional. To set an example for private employers, Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to delay pay raises for civilian federal employees and the military for six months beginning Jan. 1, 1972. THE DOLLAR. In the world's major money markets, the value of the dollar remained generally unstable. Throughout the Common Market countries and in Japan, exchange rates continued to be set as much...
...weeks ago, a federal court ruled that the National Environmental Policy Act required the Commission to consider the effect of such plants on the entire environment. That decision, coupled with the AEC's discovery of flaws in the standard emergency cooling system used by U.S. nuclear plants, will delay the operation of ten nearly completed nukes (nuclear plants), 52 others under construction and 31 on the drawing boards. Last week the AEC's new policies were already affecting two communities that badly needed nuclear power: Midland, Mich., and New York City...
...leading anti-reactor crusaders, Mrs. William Sinclair, nonetheless remains concerned that accidents in the plant might cause the release of dangerous radioactivity. "This is the first nuclear power plant of this size placed close to a large industrial and population center," she says. "We don't want to delay the plant, just study public-interest issues. Yet I'm now everybody's favorite villain." Last week, although it is the AEC's technical and procedural difficulties-not environmental opposition-that is causing the trouble, protesters littered Mrs. Sinclair's front yard with paper and made...
GOVERNMENT SPENDING CUTS. Alan Greenspan argues that "the $4.7 billion reduction in this fiscal year's budget and the one-year delay in the welfare bill are the most important moves in the longer run. If we do not reduce our huge deficits, we will have grave difficulties controlling inflation." To that contention David Grove adds: "Instead of the cuts, I would have preferred more fiscal stimulation. The reductions were mainly a political maneuver, to show that everybody has to sacrifice. President Nixon was saying, 'See, we are making cuts...
...taken by surprise by his aggressive imbecility in storming well-protected defenses. On other occasions he was less lucky. At the battle of Antietam, for example, he spent hours trying to take a bridge to cross a shallow creek that his men could easily have waded. Burnside's delay cost the Union a victory that might have changed the course of the war. True to form in such matters, Burnside was subsequently promoted to head the Army of the Potomac...