Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order introduced by Councillor Barbara S. Ackermann to hold a public meeting next week with Cronin in his capacity as temporary rent control administrator was also put off when Councillor Danehy exercised his charter right to delay voting on the order for one week...
Uniformed and plainclothes police began beating the withdrawing crowd and made four arrests. Michael Sobel and John Pennington, both Harvard students, and James Whitney, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, will all seek continuances to delay their cases...
...became obvious that such an approach was not going to work, and Rogers approved a tough U.S. reply to Moscow's protest. The U.S. note complained of the consular treaty violations and made it clear that the U.S. saw "no justification for any further delay" in the officers' release...
Imposed Time Limit. The chief prod for solving court congestion may well be the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a speedy trial. So far, federal courts have found nothing unconstitutional about delays of a year and sometimes more. In a pending case, however, the nine judges of a federal appeals court are being asked by New York City, among other interested parties, to define the speedy-trial right-for the first time-by setting a six-month limit between arrest and trial. Under the proposed rule, a defendant could request that the charges be dropped after the deadline unless...
...Part of the political calculus was the delay in the whole procedure. Cox did not file complaints against Cheyney and three others until about July 23, conveniently after an aroused student body had left Cambridge. (In court, he pleaded fatigue and papers to grade-a slow rate of work for a former Solicitor General.) The arresting officer testified that he was not given the warrants until September-another delay of two months. Why did Harvard not move against Cheyney earlier. We think, and the administration has offered no reply, that they waited until Cheyney enrolled in graduate school...