Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clifton, however, believes the national economy may go through two or three cycles of good and bad times during a five-year drive. "I don't think the drive leadership will set their sights on national economic conditions--only a major national or international crisis could delay it," he says...
Several alumnae functions on the West Coast will delay Horner's return to Harvard until April Fool...
...coal. Energy Department has tended to promote the use of coal,while the Environmental Protection Agency has been inclined to retard it. Nuclear power development has slumped. A major reason: complex and long-drawn-out regulatory studies and hearing give vocal minority a devastatingly effective forum for opposition and delay the building and licensing of new plants for an average of or twelve years or more...
...game long decided, Big Red rooters risked the referee's wrath as they tossed a smorgasbord of seafood and fowl--some as energetic as backskating defensemen--on to the ice before the third period started. Cornell was in fact assessed a delay of game penalty, but Treadway took advantage of it to score a shorthanded goal. Nethery, who with 51 points is one behind Treadway in the scoring race, grabbed his sixteenth goal at 10:23 to complete the scoring...
...later, not a memory trace of the first episode remained in the publishing world. Rejection slips again crowded Ross's mailbox. "While your prose style is very lucid," wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...