Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case before the GSD Faculty is a good test of how "the system" responds to "legitimate" protest. To date, we have seen the following: delay of nearly a year in dealing with my appeal; deletion of one of the two substantive grounds for appeal originally passed by the Faculty and on the basis of which I drew up my "brief": establishment of a procedure violating most known rules of appeal and arbitration, whereby the same body that made the original decision selects the body to hear a challenge to that decision; elimination of any meaningful vestige of protection...
...took more than a year for word of the My Lai massacre to reach Washington. Last week the Army punished two of the men it considered responsible for that delay. Major General Samuel W. Koster, commander of the Americal Division at the time of My Lai, was demoted one grade to Brigadier General. He and his assistant division commander, Brigadier General George H. Young Jr., were stripped of their Distinguished Service Medals and given letters of censure. That, in effect, ended their military careers...
...June, as now seems almost certain, Heath will face difficult options. He could try to railroad the EEC entry through Parliament before the summer recess, which normally comes in July. He could also wait until October, after the party conferences. But there are disadvantages in delay. By the fall, Labor may well have turned openly against entry, and opposition in the Tory rank-and-file may have burst through the surface...
Some Faculty members maintain that the delay is aimed at relieving pressure on Bok to make Dean Dunlop Provost. Dunlop has been widely mentioned as the most likely candidate for Provost, but Bok may feel that someone with Dunlop's confidence and power may undercut his own power during the first months of office...
WRISTON: Administrative practices are a major difficulty. You ship fruit over to the Common Market, and they have one inspector on the pier. With that delay, the fruit spoils before the ship can be unloaded. They say that they are not discriminating against us-it just happens that the other fellow's brother graduated from college that day and he went to the ceremony with his sister...