Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gibson hits his peak as the star of Night Letters, a telephone participation show. Audience feedback creates a web of involvement and expands radio to almost mythic proportions. Spinning his dials and monitoring the tape delay device that censors callers' obscenities, Gibson is a McLuhan obfuscation made flesh-a benevolent witch doctor in an electronic village of the lonely, the sick and screwed...
...Wall Street may again be heading into a repetition of the paperwork snarl that overwhelmed brokers from 1967 to 1969. Chairman Donald T. Regan of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith last week urged that brokerage houses be prohibited through quotas from accepting more trades than they can process without delay. Recognizing the danger signs, the New York Stock Exchange last week ordered one medium-sized firm to limit the volume of its business...
Junior Dave Fish had to wait three hours for his opponent to arrive for the final point. After the delay, Fish lost...
...served to bring any large measure of rent relief to tenants it has at leastfunctioned to bring out the effects of different political techniques in the city. The administration of the law by Corcoran and Cronin is another example of one of the main techniques of city government: delay...
Regulatory Paralysis. There are no easy answers to these dilemmas. The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far dickered with the exchange for eight years over commission-rate revisions without reaching a final decision. The regulatory paralysis has only been increased by President Nixon's delay in appointing an SEC chairman to succeed the procrastinating Hamer Budge, who resigned Dec. 31 to join Investors Diversified Services. The White House has offered the chairmanship to William J. Casey, 57, a Manhattan and Washington tax lawyer who is a partner of Leonard Hall, Republican national chairman during the Eisenhower Administration...